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HEALTH: PHYSICAL MOBILITY :
PHYSICAL EXERCISE AND FITNESS: WALKING : 
TRANSPORTATION: AUTOMOBILE:
TRANSPORTATION: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:
US out of Step with World on Walking, Study Shows




US out of Step with World on Walking, Study Shows
Report links obesity levels to American car culture, lack of public 
transport and reluctance to take a daily stroll
Reuters in New York
Guardian.co.uk
Monday 11 October 2010 13.03 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/11/walking-study-us-steps-day



Americans have got some walking to do if they want to catch up with the 
rest of the world. They are far outpaced by Australians, Asians and 
Europeans who walk much more, according to a study.



Adults in western Australia average 9,695 steps a day. The Swiss followed 
with 9,650, while the Japanese clocked in with 7,168 steps. But Americans 
straggled far behind with just 5,117 steps.



"We were surprised that the levels of physical activity were that low," 
said Dr David R Bassett, of the University of Tennessee, the lead author 
of the study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.



"Five thousand steps is really pretty inactive," he added.



Bassett said Americans need to step up for another 30 to 40 minutes a day 
to shrink the fitness gap. One mile equals about 2,000 steps.



The researchers used pedometers to gather step data from 1,136 US adults, 
who varied in age, gender and geographic location, and compared the 
results to similar studies in the other countries. Bassett thinks US car 
culture and lack of adequate public transportation provide fertile ground 
for couch potatoes.



"People do have to exercise," he said. "But our overall environment does 
not lend itself to promoting an active lifestyle."



He attributes the more active lifestyle of adults in other countries to 
their greater access to mass transit. "In Switzerland you might get enough 
activity just in the course of doing your errands," he explained.




The complete article may be read at the URL above.




Pedometer-Measured Physical Activity and Health Behaviors in U.S. Adults
BASSETT, DAVID R. JR.
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise:
October 2010 - Volume 42 - Issue 10 - pp 1819-1825
doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181dc2e54


Results: Adults reported taking an average of 5117 steps per day. Male 
gender, younger age, higher education level, single marital status, and 
lower body mass index were all positively associated with steps per day. 
Steps per day were positively related to other self-reported measures of 
physical activity and negatively related to self-reported measures on 
physical inactivity. Living environment (urban, suburban, or rural) and 
eating habits were not associated with steps per day.

Conclusions: In the current study, men and women living in the United 
States took fewer steps per day than those living in Switzerland, 
Australia, and Japan. We conclude that low levels of ambulatory physical 
activity are contributing to the high prevalence of adult obesity in the 
United States.


http://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/2010/10000/
Pedometer_Measured_Physical_Activity_and_Health.4.aspx



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Selected Additional Publication Citations on This Subject:



Obesity, physical activity, and the urban environment: public 
health research needs
Lopez, Russell P
Journal: Environmental health
ISSN: 1476-069X Date: 2006
Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Page: 25



DECLINING RATES OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE UNITED STATES: What 
Are the Contributors?
Brownson, Ross C.
Journal: Annual review of public health
ISSN: 0163-7525 Date: 2005
Volume: 26 Issue: 1 Page: 421



Creating a robust public health infrastructure for physical 
activity promotion
Yancey, AK
Journal: American journal of preventive medicine
ISSN: 0749-3797 Date: 2007
Volume: 32 Issue: 1 Page: 68



Environmental justice: obesity, physical activity, and healthy 
eating
Taylor, WC
Journal: Journal of physical activity and health
ISSN: 1543-3080 Date: 2006
Volume: 3 Page: 30



Public transit, obesity, and medical costs: Assessing the 
magnitudes
Edwards, RD
Journal: Preventive medicine
ISSN: 0091-7435 Date: 2008
Volume: 46 Issue: 1 Page: 14




Physical Activity Reduces the Risk of Subsequent Depression for 
Older Adults
Strawbridge, W. J.
Journal: American journal of epidemiology
ISSN: 0002-9262 Date: 2002
Volume: 156 Issue: 4 Page: 328




Impact of Energy Intake, Physical Activity, and Population-wide 
Weight Loss on Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Mortality in Cuba, 1980 
2005
Franco, M.
Journal: American journal of epidemiology
ISSN: 0002-9262 Date: 2007
Volume: 166 Issue: 12 Page: 1374




Population-based interventions engaging communities of color in 
healthy eating and active living: a review
Yancey, AK
Journal: Population
ISSN: 1634-2941 Date: 2004
Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Page: 03_0012




Rural urban differences in health and health behaviour: A baseline 
description of a community health-promotion programme for the elderly 
Fogelholm, Mikael
Journal: Scandinavian journal of public health
ISSN: 1403-4948 Date: 2006
Volume: 34 Issue: 6 Page: 632




Socioeconomics of urban travel: evidence from the 2001 NHTS[PDF] from 
rutgers.eduJ Pucher, JL Renne - Transportation Quarterly, 2003 - 
policy.rutgers.edu
http://policy.rutgers.edu/vtc/documents/ 
LandUse.SocioEcon_Urb-Pucher_RenneTQ.pdf



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Diseases of comfort: primary cause of death in the 22nd century 
Choi, B. C K
Journal: Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979)
ISSN: 0143-005X Date: 2005
Volume: 59 Issue: 12 Page: 1030




Physical activity and the incidence of type 2 diabetes in the 
Shanghai women's health study
Villegas, R.
Journal: International journal of epidemiology
ISSN: 0300-5771 Date: 2006
Volume: 35 Issue: 6 Page: 1553




The global epidemic of childhood obesity: poverty, urbanization, 
and the nutrition transition
Brody, J
Journal: Nutrition bytes
ISSN: 1548-4327 Date: 2002
Volume: 8 Issue: 2




[PDF] Patterns and Trends in Physical Activity, Occupation, 
Transportation, Land Use and Sedentary Behaviors
http://trb.org/downloads/sr282papers/sr282Brownson.pdf




Application of Law to the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
Alderman, Jess
Journal: The Journal of law, medicine & ethics
ISSN: 1073-1105 Date: 2007
Volume: 35 Issue: 1 Page: 90




Individual, social, environmental, and physical environmental 
correlates with physical activity among Canadians: a cross-sectional study 
Pan, Sai Yi
Journal: BMC public health
ISSN: 1471-2458 Date: 2009
Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Page: 21




Effect of the Physical Activities in Leisure Time and Commuting to 
Work on Mental Health
Ohta, Masanori
Journal: Journal of occupational health
ISSN: 1341-9145 Date: 2007
Volume: 49 Issue: 1 Page: 46




Micro-level analysis of childhood obesity, diet, physical 
activity, residential socioeconomic and social capital variables: where 
are the obesogenic environments in Leeds?
Procter, K L
Journal: Area (London 1969)
ISSN: 0004-0894 Date: 2008
Volume: 40 Issue: 3 Page: 323




Why Have Americans Become More Obese?
Cutler, David M
Journal: The Journal of economic perspectives
ISSN: 0895-3309 Date: 2003
Volume: 17 Issue: 3 Page: 93




Objective and perceived availability of physical activity 
opportunities: differences in associations with physical activity behavior 
among urban adolescents
Prins, Richard G
Journal: The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical 
activity
ISSN: 1479-5868 Date: 2009
Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Page: 70




Obesity: the emerging cost of economic prosperity
Anand, S. S.
Journal: CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association journal
ISSN: 0820-3946 Date: 2006
Volume: 175 Issue: 9 Page: 1081




A prospective study of the effects of regular sports practice on 
mortality among the elderly in a rural community in Japan: An 8-year 
follow-up study
Kim, Hunkyung
Journal: Geriatrics & gerontology international
ISSN: 1444-1586 Date: 2003
Volume: 3 Issue: s1 Page: S15




E-technology and Pedometer Walking Program to Increase Physical 
Activity at Work
Faghri, Pouran D.
Journal: The Journal of primary prevention
ISSN: 0278-095X Date: 2008
Volume: 29 Issue: 1 Page: 73




[PDF] Report on Public Health and Urban Sprawl in Ontario
[PDF] from cfpc.ca
A Abelsohn, R Bray, C Vakil, D Elliott 
Environmental Health Committee, , 2005 - cfpc.ca
http://www.cfpc.ca/include/asp/FileDownload.asp?
getFile=%7B1BA66324-68AC-4782-9258-286017A84B54%7D



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http://tinyurl.com/25n7fqb



Reducing automobile traffic: an urgent policy for health promotion 
Tapia Granados, JA
Journal: Revista panamericana de salud plica
ISSN: 1020-4989 Date: 1998
Volume: 3 Page: 227




[PDF] Is Obesity a Result of Faulty Economic Policies?
The Case of the United States and Japan
[PDF] from umn.eduB
Senauer, M Gemma
2006 Annual Meeting, August 12- , 2006 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/25497/1/ip06se01.pdf




THE COST OF PHYSICAL INACTIVITY
in HALIFAX REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY
Prepared by:
Sally Walker, Ph.D. & Ronald Colman, Ph.D.
For:
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia
August 2004 
https://gov.ns.ca/hpp/publications/HRMPhysicalInactivity-August2004.pdf




Reducing Obesity: What Americans Can Learn from the Japanese 
Senauer, B
Journal: Choices (Ames, Iowa)
ISSN: 0886-5558
Volume: 4 Page: 2006




Physical Activity and Cancer Prevention
Rockhill, Beverly
Book: Cancer prevention : the causes and prevention of cancer
ISBN: 0-7923-6603-4, 978-0-7923-6603-4 Date: 2002 Page: 219
Place: Dordrecht Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers




The Effect of Light Rail Transit on Body Mass Index and Physical 
Activity
MacDonald, JM
Journal: American journal of preventive medicine
ISSN: 0749-3797 Date: 2010
Volume: 39 Issue: 2 Page: 105




Why Is the Obesity Rate So Low in Japan and High in the US? Some 
Possible Economic Explanations
Senauer, B
Journal: Working papers series (Tartu ikool. Majandusteaduskond)
ISSN: 1406-5967 Date: 2006




[PDF] Policy Recommendations Targeted Against Food and Beverage Marketing 
to Combat Childhood Obesity 
[PDF] from jonathanbright.caJ
Bright, D Menasche, M Nicin
2008 - jonathanbright.ca
http://www.jonathanbright.ca/Jb/Publications_2_files/ 
12.03.08%20-%20Peel%20Public%20Health%20Obesity%20Report.pdf



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http://tinyurl.com/2ceuyzc




The neighbourhood matters: studying exposures relevant to 
childhood obesity and the policy implications in Leeds, UK
Edwards, K L
Journal: Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979)
ISSN: 0143-005X Date: 2010
Volume: 64 Issue: 3 Page: 194




Title Urban Health: Global Perspectives
Volume 18 of Public Health/Vulnerable Populations
Editors David Vlahov, Jo Ivey Boufford, Clarence E. Pearson, Laurie Norris
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, 2011
ISBN 0470422068, 9780470422069
Length 560 pages
Subjects Medical / Public Health
Urban Transportation  283




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