Inactivity Bad for Obesity Here’s a stunning revelation, if
overweight and obese people exercised even a little bit, they’d
be healthier. Jack Kelly of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports:
According to a study published in Science magazine in 2003, the
typical American aged 20 to 40 has been gaining about 2 pounds a
year. That could be prevented if we burned just 100 additional
calories per day. We could burn an additional 100 calories each
day by walking briskly for 10 to 15 minutes, dancing for 20, or
doing housework for 30. The Center for Consumer Freedom is a
nonprofit group financed mostly by restaurants and food
manufacturers, who have a vested interest in keeping us (over)
eating. But the CCF's report is partially supported by two
recent studies published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association. About two-thirds of American adults are overweight,
and half of these are obese, according to the National
Institutes for Health. Obesity is defined by the NIH as having a
body mass index of 30 or mo