Study finds troubling new evidence of teens’ lack of physical activity

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“91 percent were not getting at least an hour of that type of physical activity each day.”

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K. Li et al. Changes in Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity Among Older Adolescents, Pediatrics (2016). DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-1372

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