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- Two thirds of all students
participated in the recommended amount of vigorous
physical activities1
during the previous week.
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- Males were more likely
than females to participate in moderate2
and vigorous activity, exercise to tone their muscles, and
attend physical education class at least once a week. See
Figure 1
.
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- One third of students had
not received the recommended amount of both moderate
and vigorous
physical activity during the week.
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- Black students were twice
as likely as white students to not participate in moderate
or vigorous physical activity during the previous week.
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- More females than males
did not participate in the recommended amount3
of both moderate and vigorous physical activity during the
week.
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- Four fifths of all
students exercised or played sports for more than 20
minutes during their physical education class regardless
of gender or grade.
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- White students were more
likely than black students to take part in moderate and
vigorous activity, exercise to tone their muscles,
exercise or play sports more than 20 minutes during an
average physical education class, and play on a sports
team.
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- Weekly attendance of
physical education class dropped considerably from ninth
to tenth grade and dropped again from tenth to eleventh
and twelfth grades. See
Figure 2
.
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- Daily attendance of
physical education class was more likely in ninth grade
than in tenth, eleventh or twelfth grades.
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- Younger students were more
likely than older students to watch three or more hours of
television each day on an average school day.4
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- Black and Hispanic
students were more likely than white students to watch
three or more hours of television each day on an average
school day. See
Figure 3
.
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- Vigorous physical
activities are defined as exercise or participation in
physical activities that make the participant sweat and
breath hard. The recommended amount is at least 20
minutes of activity on 3 or more days a week.
- Moderate physical
activities are defined as participation in physical
activities that do not make the participant sweat and
breath hard. The recommended amount is at least 30 minutes
of activity on 5 or more days a week.
- Participate in at least 20
minutes of vigorous physical activity on 3 or more of the past
7 days and at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity on 5 or more of the
past 7 days
- Television viewing is typically a sedentary behavior that
is correlated with obesity.
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