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Majority Of People Get Recommended Exercise

The CDC has come out and revealed that the majority of people in the U.S. meet physical activity guidelines ....Washington (ECN) - The CDC has come out and revealed that the majority of people in the U.S. meet physical activity guidelines.

The 2008 physical activity guidelines for U.S. adults include 150 minutes of moderate-intensity activity each and every week.

They also recommend that adults get 75-minutes of vigorous intensity activity each and everyw eek.

What the report found is that 64.5% of adults in the U.S. met those guidelines.

It broke down further to 68.9% of men and 60.4% of women overall.

One-third of U.S. adults did not meet the minimum level of physical activity.

The report is published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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