22% of People in Worcester County are Physically Inactive

Friday, July 03, 2015

GoLocalWorcester News Team and FindtheBest

Recently, it seems that America’s companies are giving us more reasons to stay inside. You can now get your favorite food delivered to your door through sites like Seamless and eat it in bed while watching every episode of Friends on your computer thanks to Netflix. You don’t even have to make the trek to the convenience store—between services like Amazon’s same-day delivery and new apps that let you hire people to do your errands, you can run out of toilet paper in the morning and have a fresh supply waiting for you in the evening.

Though all these services are certainly convenient, they make it harder for people to stay active. And with obesity and diabetes rates increasing year over year, it’s more important than ever for Americans to regularly engage in physical activity. The CDC conducts a phone survey every year and asks adults if they’ve had any sort of exercise outside of their regular jobs (from running to walking to even gardening) in the past month. If the answer is no, they’re labeled “inactive.”

Using the most recent results (2012), data site HealthGrove crunched the numbers to see which areas of Massachusetts need to get out more. Obesity | Conditions

Here are the most inactive counties in Massachusetts:

10. Berkshire County: 18.5% of people are physically inactive Obesity | Conditions 9. Dukes County: 18.7% of people are physically inactive Obesity | Conditions 8. Norfolk County: 18.7% of people are physically inactive Obesity | Conditions 7. Essex County: 19.9% of people are physically inactive Obesity | Conditions 6. Suffolk County: 20.1% of people are physically inactive Obesity | Conditions 5. Middlesex County: 20.9% of people are physically inactive Obesity | Conditions 4. Worcester County: 22.1% of people are physically inactive Obesity | Conditions 3. Plymouth County: 23.4% of people are physically inactive Obesity | Conditions 2. Hampden County: 25.4% of people are physically inactive Obesity | Conditions 1. Bristol County: 25.7% of people are physically inactive Obesity | Conditions Top 25 Counties for Couch Potatoes in Alabama | FindTheBest