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Where are Americans the least active?

The Daily News - 7/1/2017

A recent report from the Nielsen Company revealed that the average American spends 10 hours and 39 minutes each day consuming media in some form. That figure includes time spent on smartphones, tablets, personal computers, video games, radios, etc.

With all that time spent behind a screen, it's no wonder that Americans are lagging when it comes to exercise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 21 percent of adults meet the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines and less than 30 percent of high school students get at least an hour of physical activity every day.

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The CDC gathers data on a variety of health measures through the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, which surveys more than 400,000 adults every year. The following is a look at which places in the United States are the least active, according to data collected in the BFRSS survey.

Note: The BRFSS reports data for metropolitan statistical areas, which may span multiple states. The Memphis metro area, for instance, consists of counties in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, even though the city of Memphis is in Tennessee. Ties are broken by the percentage of respondents who said they participated in 150 minutes or more of aerobic physical activity per week.