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Nationwide, less than one-third of all US children ages 6–17 engage in vigorous activity
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“Nationwide, less than one-third of all children ages 6–17 engage in vigorous activity, defined as at least 20 minutes of physical activity that makes the child sweat and breathe hard,” according to the report “F” as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future from Trust for America’s Health, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The childhood and adolescent findings are from the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) and reflect the same data reported in the 2010 edition of F as in Fat. No newer findings are available on a state-by-state basis.
REFERENCE
Anon. “F” as in fat: How obesity threatens America’s future from trust for America’s health. 2011 Jul, published on-line.
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The report is available on-line here:
http://www.healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2011/Obesity2011Report.pdf
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
http://www.rwjf.org
TRUST FOR AMERICA’S HEALTH is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives and making disease prevention a national priority.
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