Regular physical activity is associated with important health benefits, including reduced risk for premature death, cardiovascular disease, ischemic stroke, type 2 diabetes, colon and breast cancers, and depression. Increasing adults' physical activity to meet guidelines may reduce U.S. When adults with any reported difficulty walking due to a health problem were excluded, 8.7% (95% CI: 5.2, 12.3) of aggregate health care expenditures were associated with inadequate physical activity. Overall, 11.1% (95% CI: 7.3, 14.9) of aggregate health care expenditures were associated with inadequate physical activity (i.e., inactive and insufficiently active levels). Health care expenditures for inactive (i.e., no physical activity) and insufficiently active adults (i.e., some physical activity but not enough to meet guidelines) were compared with active adults (i.e., ≥150 minutes/week moderate-intensity equivalent activity) using an econometric model.
Leisure-time physical activity data from the National Health Interview Survey (2004–2010) were merged with health care expenditure data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (2006–2011). Low income people, who might work active blue-collar jobs in fields like construction, are more likely to answer "no" to that question, even if they are active throughout the day, while wealthy people will likely answer "yes," because they tend to report higher leisure time physical activity, says Marcus.This study estimates the percentage of health care expenditures in the non-institutionalized United States (U.S.) adult population associated with levels of physical activity inadequate to meet current guidelines. "When you ask people about their leisure activity, the answers differ by socioeconomic status and potentially by race," Marcus told Insider. That question, which is specifically referring to out-of-work leisure activity, rules out any physical activity someone might have done at their job. "The question researchers asked is, 'during the past month, other than your regular job, did you participate in any physical activities?'" said Marcus. While these statistics are alarming, University of Utah's Chief Wellness Officer Robin Marcus told Insider this study is not a direct measure of health. When you get home at night that the first thing you do is not think about going to the gym." "And most Americans work very hard, very hard, long hours. "Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks may not have the leisure time that whites do," Apovian told Insider. The study is limited by only addressing race and not economic factors, says Caroline Apovian, Director of the Nutrition and Weight Management Center at Boston Medical Center. This study didn't measure socioeconomic factors, which limits its analysis Some 17.3% of people in Colorado (the most active state) reported physical inactivity, defined as "engaging in no leisure-time physical activity during the past month." In Puerto Rico, a US territory, almost half (47.7%) of the population was categorized as inactive.īut, following the trend of previous reports, Southern states remain the least active in mainland US, with around a third of people inactive across the Southern belt, from Kentucky to Florida to Texas. Every single state had at least 15% of adults that were inactive.
Not as much as the CDC recommends they should, it turns out. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just released its statistics on how often people in America exercise. Experts told Insider this is because many of these people just don't have the time or motivation to work out.Hispanic people worked out the least, with a 31.7% rate of self-reported inactivity.The CDC defined being physically inactive as 'engaging in no leisure-time physical activity during the past month,' and found that the Southern states were the least active.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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