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Health and fitness survey

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Cooking Light surveyed 1,072 folks about health and fitness.

Some of the numbers…

- 6 percent of Americans adults get 30 minutes of exercise a day
- 22 percent exercise three to four times per week
- 19 percent walk or bike instead of taking transportation
- 41 percent take the stairs whenever possible
- 33 percent regularly park their cars farther from their destination to get in extra walking

- 67 percent recognize that making small, healthy improvements today add up to big benefits later
- 76 percent are satisfied with their mental and emotional well-being
- 45 percent are satisfied with their body weight
- 58 percent are satisfied with their stress level

Maybe these numbers are true, but I don’t believe most of them.
I might be able to believe the first two, maybe even the third. The rest of them - I believe - are exaggerated. I don’t have any data to back up my suspects, but the numbers don’t line up well with data on overweight and various prescription drugs.

Of course users notoriously exaggerate on surveys, sometimes as much as 40%.

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