Ohioans are couch potatoes
        • Hamilton County: 29.6 of adults report no leisure-time physical activities.

        • Statewide: 32.5 percent of adults report no leisure-time physical activities done for exercise or recreation during the past month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

        • Nationally: 27.7 percent of adults are inactive.

Numbers on the area's waistline
        Data from the Health Improvement of Greater Cincinnati for Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Highland and Warren counties in Ohio; Boone, Campbell, Kenton and Grant counties in Kentucky; and Dearborn and Ripley counties in Indiana indicate:

        • 36 percent of Tristate adults are overweight, and 22 percent are considered obese.

        • Tristate males and adults over 30 are most likely to be obese. Adults over 45 who are widowed, without college degrees and living in a one-adult household are most likely to be obese.

        • About 58 percent of adults in the Tristate area engage in physical activity or workouts three times a week that last at least 20 minutes and that make their heart beat faster and make them breathe heavier.

        • 37 percent of Tristate adults engage in this level of physical activity less than three times a week, and 5 percent are unable to engage in this level of physical activity.

        • Lack of time is the main reason Tristate adults who can exercise cite for not exercising six to seven times per week.

        • About 41 percent of Tristate adults eat food high in cholesterol or fat on a daily basis.

        • 55 percent of adults in the Tristate area consider their diets to be somewhat healthy, while 30 percent consider their diets very or extremely healthy and 15 percent view their diets as not too or not at all healthy.

        • Tristate adults most likely to engage in physical activity less than three times a week are over 29, female; married, widowed or divorced/separated; and registered to vote.

        • Tristate adults most likely to have a high fat/high cholesterol diet are 18 to 29, below the federal poverty level, living in a household with three or more people, living in a household with children, living in a household with three or more adults and not registered to vote.

        • Tristate adults most likely to consider their diets not too or not at all healthy are 18 to 45, male, not a college graduate and not registered to vote.

        • The main barrier Tristate adults cite to following a healthy diet is that they eat what they like and they don't like healthy foods.

        NOTE: Criterion for being overweight is a body mass index of 25 or more, while obesity means a body mass index of more than 30.

        Sources: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati.

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