Fitness & Wellness
Policy brief reports many California teens do not get regular physical exercise
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, May 2nd, 2005
Teenage girls, teens from low-income families, teens with no access to safe parks or open spaces, teens whose schools do not require physical education, and Latino, Asian, and African American teens are particularly at risk according to researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) Center for Health Policy Research.
The new policy brief, entitled "California Adolescents Increasingly Inactive," is based on data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey and examines the extent...
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