{"id":868,"date":"2009-12-30T18:02:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2009-12-30T18:02:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:02:54","slug":"a-new-years-resolution-dont-follow-the-masses-when-it-comes-to-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/12\/30\/868\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Year&#8217;s resolution &#8211; Don&#8217;t follow the masses when it comes to exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">What&#8217;s your new year&#8217;s resolution? For many people this time of year, losing weight and\/or getting active tops the list. But when it comes to getting exercise (or, as we at NCHS term it, regular leisure-time physical activity), only about 35% of Americans are making it a priority (although, the percentage of those getting regular exercise in January through June of 2009 did increase from the same period in 2008). Take a look at the most recent statistics &#8211; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\"><em>Percentage of adults aged 18 years and over who engaged in regular leisure-time physical activity: United States, 1997-June 2009<\/em> (Data from the National Health Interviewy Survey):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/exercise.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-869\" title=\"Percentage of adults aged 18 years and over who engaged in regular leisure-time physical activity: United States, 1997-June 2009 \" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/exercise.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The answer? Don&#8217;t give up. And this year, if losing weight and getting active is your goal, maybe it&#8217;s time to give your resolution more than lip service.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, visit <a title=\"Link to NHIS Early Release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/released200912.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/released200912.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s your new year&#8217;s resolution? For many people this time of year, losing weight and\/or getting active tops the list. But when it comes to getting exercise (or, as we at NCHS term it, regular leisure-time physical activity), only about 35% of Americans are making it a priority (although, the percentage of those getting regular<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62277,11559,63685,53746,15129],"tags":[64154,64213,64254,64360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}