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	Institution: CLOCKSS  | My Account | E-mail Alerts | Access Rights | Sign In Vol. 7 No. 3, May 1998   Archives  • Online Features Brief Report  This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (147)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal Moderate Leisure-Time Physical Activity Who Is Meeting the Public Health Recommendations? A National Cross-sectional Study Deborah Arriaza Jones, PhD, RD; Barbara E. Ainsworth, PhD, MPH; Janet B. Croft, PhD; Caroline A. Macera, PhD; Elizabeth E. Lloyd, MS; Hussain R. Yusuf, MBBS, MPH Arch Fam Med. 1998;7:285-289. We identified the prevalence of adults who met the 1993 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine moderate physical activity recommendation and the 1996 Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health energy expenditure guideline for leading a moderately active lifestyle. Participants were 16890 women and 12272 men at least 18 years old who were asked in the 1990 National Health Interview Survey about their leisure-time physical activities. About one third of US adults met either recommendation for moderate activity; 32% met the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Association of Sports Medicine recommendation and 38% met the surgeon general's guideline. Women, ethnic minorities, adults with lower educational attainment, and older adults were least active. 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