Yep, that’s right, we “unfit Americans” are working out more, and it may be helping us slim those notoriously larger and thicker waistlines that we are known for here in the US in the near future, although it is supposedly not making a dent yet. The surge in fitness education and health education to make Americans aware that obesity and lack of exercise is literally killing us off is probably partly to credit.
For women in this new survey, they rose about four percentage points in the percentage of women who responded to the survey who regularly exercise, which is excellent. It brought women closer to 50% of women who regularly exercise, and that’s great, although of course we’d like to see numbers closer to 100%, it’s definitely progress. And who can blame more women for working out?
It makes you feel like you can take on the world, eases stress and anxiety, and makes you forget about your problems so it also works as a natural antidepressant which is excellent for women who are statistically more prone to depression due to hormonal differences from men (at least this is the thought).
Not only did the woman’s percentages rise, but men’s also rose about two percentage points, bringing them actually to 50%, beating out women by a few percentage points (come on ladies!), which is good news in the field of heart disease, prostate cancer and other deaths and diseases related partially to not getting any exercise and poor diet.
Experts are saying that the improved exercise numbers are not yet impacting the bottom line for Americans, which is less disease, less obesity and less deaths associated with lack of exercise, but they also say that these same Americans who are increasing their physical activities may be lacking in the nutrition department and still eating high fat, high salt, and high sugar foods, which in essence nullifies working out in some ways (don’t get me wrong, working out is still better than not working out, no matter what the diet is).
We’re getting there, little by little!
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