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America: A Nation of Couch Potatoes

December 29, 2014 by Steve Nakamura

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In a new study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers found that the average person is getting less than two minutes of activity per day.That’s right. 2 minutes.

From the blog Live Better at EXOS (http://www.coreperformance.com) comes some grotesque numbers about how inactive Americans actually are.

Data was captured from 2,600 people to see how much they actually did during a day. The result. Ugh.

Obese women averaged 11 seconds of vigorous activity daily, while normal weight men and women — less than two minutes a day.

Read more here at coreperformance.com.

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