{"id":699,"date":"2009-09-09T17:27:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T21:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2009-09-09T17:27:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T21:27:17","slug":"exercise-not-a-priority-for-the-majority-of-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/09\/09\/699\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise not a priority for the majority of Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">How many Americans are exercising? The answer might surprise you (or it might not). Here&#8217;s a look at the numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>In 2008, 31.9% of U.S. adults aged 18 years and over engaged in regular leisure-time physical activity, which was higher than, but not significantly different from, the 2007 estimate of 30.8%.<\/li>\n<li>The annual percentages of adults aged 18 years and over who engaged in regular leisure-time physical activity ranged from 29.8% in 1998 to 32.8% in 2003.<\/li>\n<li>For adults aged 18\u201324 years, 65-74 years, and 75 years and over, women were less likely than men to engage in regular leisure-time physical activity.<\/li>\n<li>The age-sex-adjusted percentage of adults who engaged in regular leisure-time physical activity was 24.5% for Hispanic adults, 35.4% for non-Hispanic white adults, and 24.6% for non-Hispanic black adults.<\/li>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Source: <a title=\"Link to Early Release of Estimates from 2008 NHIS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/released200906.htm#7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Early Release of Selected Estimates Based on Data From the 2008 National Health Interview Survey<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many Americans are exercising? The answer might surprise you (or it might not). Here&#8217;s a look at the numbers. In 2008, 31.9% of U.S. adults aged 18 years and over engaged in regular leisure-time physical activity, which was higher than, but not significantly different from, the 2007 estimate of 30.8%. The annual percentages of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}