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Facts on Inactivity and
Sitting watching TV
- Physical inactivity is an epidemic.
- About 70% of US adults and 50% of US children
are sedentary.
- In 1986, the CDC found that 256,686 (14% of
total) deaths in the USA were a result of no regular exercise.
- Inactivity is an independent risk factor for
at least 35 chronic health conditions and higher mortality from these
conditions.
- Obese individuals and those with Type 2
diabetes live 7 years shorter than those who are not.
- Many longitudinal studies have shown that
obesity in children lead to hypertension, dyslipidemia, insulin
resistance, steatohepatitis, depression, asthma, and many more health
problems.
- An obese child has a higher probability of
becoming an obese adult.
- Pediatric obesity related hospital costs have
increased 3-fold during the last 20 years, reaching $127 million a
year.
- Children watch an average 3 to 4 hours of TV in
a day.
- Children use buses and cars to go to school
even though they live less than a mile.
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Leo Leonidas, MD, FAAP, Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics,
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston; Attending Pediatrician,
Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine; Primary Care Pediatrics,
Bangor
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