Your Teen May be as Inactive as Your Parents
A study recently conducted by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that 19 year old are as inactive as 60 year olds.
Teenagers are notorious for being pegged with a stigma of laziness, considering that they're at their peak stage for fitness and energy. Despite this stigma, many in the healthcare community did not believe that this lack of drive or inactivity was comparable to those just a year or two away from retirement. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health utilized data from the National Health & Nutrition Examination Survey which surveyed 12,529 participants with fitness trackers for seven days over the course of the years 2003-2004 and 2005-2006. The participants were broken down into five different age groups: 6-11, 12-19, 20-29, 31-59, and 60-84.
After analyzing the data, researchers found that 20 year olds were the most active, and that the activity was spread throughout the day. Males also were more prone to take part in high intensity activity compared to females, while 60-84 year olds were the most sedentary of all the age groups. Surprisingly, among 12-19 year olds, 50% of male and 75% of female participants did not meet the WHO recommendation of 60 minutes of exercise a day, making them almost as sedentary as their senior counterparts. The finding is specifically alarming due to the projection that 1/3 American's will have diabetes by 2050 if current dietary and exercise trends continue.
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