Posted on 01/30/2022 10:22:51 AM PST by blam
When the pandemic started, many hoped it might rally Americans to confront a grandiose global challenge, a kind unseen since the end of WWII. Instead, it just made them even lazier.
New data from the CDC showed that a quarter of American adults aren’t even active enough to protect their health. For all the Pelotons sold in the last two years, millions of Americans are apparently still living a sedentary lifestyle that’s believed to be even more harmful to a person’s health than smoking.
The greatest concentrations of lazy adults are found in the Southern US and Puerto Rico (areas that are also the poorest per capita in the US).
Here’s more from Bloomberg:
Two years into a pandemic that has normalized work-from-home and moved many social gatherings online, new data from the Centers for Disease Control show that many Americans were couch potatoes long before Covid-19.
A quarter of U.S. adults aren’t active enough to protect their health, according to a CDC study conducted from 2017-2020. The agency released a map on Thursday showing that Puerto Rico and states in the South had the highest prevalence of inactivity, followed by the Midwest, Northeast and the West. Colorado, Utah, Washington and Vermont were the most-active states.
“Getting enough physical activity could prevent 1 in 10 premature deaths,” said Ruth Petersen, director of the CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, in a statement. The health benefits include better sleep, lower blood pressure and anxiety, and reduced risk for heart disease and several cancers.
Using the CDC data, BBG created a map showing the percentage of the population classified as “sedentary”.
The CDC gathered its data via a (still ongoing) telephone survey called the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. New data are reported on a routine basis. The interviewers have been trained to classify any activity – even walking to work or on the golf course – as qualified physical activity.
As for what might be causing the regional disparities in the above map, the CDC guessed that “disparities…exacerbated by a lack of “safe and convenient” places for physical activity in some neighborhoods….research has shown that income, education and race are correlated with access to green space in US metro areas.”
Who really cares what the CDC thinks about anything?
Anything from the CDC is doubtful.
But they whined at people to "Stay inside! Don't leave your house or GRANDMA WILL DIE!" and now whine about people not being active enough?
Good Gravy.
The CDC can ‘float up a lazy river in the noon day sun’ as far as I’m concerned. Yes, I need to be more active, so I’ve resumed using free weights again, since walking is painful with my foot neuropathy. But I already knew that without this shiny new tool of the Democrat Party throwing their two cents in.
“Who really cares what the CDC thinks about anything”?
That’s right. I really believe that whatever they say has ulterior motives behind it.
They shut down the gyms, and now you have to wear a mask if working out at the gym. And the CDC is pointing at us.
They have actually made people afraid of fresh air and sunshine as well.
I am 65. Still working full time. Yesterday I picked up rx from vet 45 minutes away, picked up bales of hay for animals, stopped at aldi on way home. Unload3d hay, Fed animals , cooked dinner, made cinnamon rolls. Bed at 11. Today I fed animals, made home made chicken soup as well as chili. Lunch and dinner. Canned what was left. It’s almost 2pm Sunday. I have no idea what inactivity looks like. Hello from Florida.
My life hasn’t changed a bit. I am busy as always.
How many of us over 21 can still fit into the same jeans/sweats and t shirts we wore before the Pandemic?
My wife will be 82 soon, and I’m past 83, and we still fit into the above.
My wife has used a spare closet in our guest bedroom (no more guests since the pandemic to stow off season clothing.). She recently found several of my long sleeve fitted shirts (Under Armor, Sage and other name brand long sleeve shirts) that she moved to the spare closet after the first pandemic winter. All of them fit.
She has basically worn out 4 sweat sets, she bought from Costco in the first winter/spring of the pandemic. She still fits into those sweats. We will be ordering 4 new sets this week from Costco for her.
We are seeing more walkers on our local hills and flats the past few weeks with the warmer weather.
Some admitted have that not fitting into their winter clothes was a shock.
also CDC: people are lazier than ever
It’s racism. It’s always racism.
Obviously.
Don’t forget alcohol delivery.
bkmk
Great stuff, Donnafrflorida! I live in a place full of farmers/ranchers, they are like ants, always moving.
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