Alabama Louisiana Oklahoma Tennessee West Virginia New Jersey Georgia Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Adult Physical Inactivity Prevalence Maps by Race/Ethnicity Table of Contents Sluggish States 10. Georgia 9. New Jersey 8. West Virginia 7. Tennessee 6. Oklahoma 5. Louisiana ...
“Too many adults are inactive, and they may not know how much it affects their health,” Dr. Ruth Petersen, director of the CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, said in a statement. “Being physically active helps you sleep better, feel better and reduce your risk...
This “positive deviance” approach involves finding “uncommon, beneficial practices” used by positive outliers in resource-poor communities that help those communities achieve better results than “similarly impoverished neighbors” [24]. Such practices are likely more “affordable, acceptable, and ...