Average obese woman gets just 1 hour of exercise a year
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) – A new study suggests that obese women get just one hour of vigorous exercise a year, while obese men don’t do much better at fewer than four hours.
The findings startled the researchers, whose main focus was finding better ways to measure how much exercise people get.
“They’re living their lives from one chair to another,” said Edward Archer, a research fellow with the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “We didn’t realize we were that sedentary. There are some people who are vigorously active, but it’s offset by the huge number of individuals who are inactive.”
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one in three people in the United States is obese, a step above being overweight. Obesity boosts the risk of cardiovascular problems such as heart disease and stroke, diabetes and some cancers.
“They’re living their lives from one chair to another,” said Edward Archer, a research fellow with the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “We didn’t realize we were that sedentary. There are some people who are vigorously active, but it’s offset by the huge number of individuals who are inactive.”
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I have nothing against woman eating the block of cheese. I am lactose intolerant, but I refuse to allow myself to judge someone by that. As I understand it, it’s not a “lifestyle”, you are born that way. At least, I’m lead to believe that by those cheese-lovers.
I’m not the one to fat bash anyone, but these people know better…yet they refuse to get moving. I see more and more young people with canes, those rolling cart things they can sit on, leaning on shopping carts in the stores and so on. Some of these people will be in a nursing home at age 50 once they lose their ability to care for themselves.
