Health:Many Young Women Don’t Exercise Enough/Story: Think, North of Never Land.

Many Young Women Don’t Exercise Enough After Graduating From High School Not being active now can lead to problems later And according to a recent study, a big challenge for many in their late teens and early 20s after receiving that high school diploma is fitting in time for exercise. Young women, in particular, are struggling to meet daily exercise recommendations, the results showed. How many minutes a week are you getting? “Basically, women weren’t meeting those levels across the board, in any of the age groups,” explains physical therapist Dawn Lorring, PT, who did not take part in the study. “However, there was a larger drop-off once you got above the age of 17. So, once you hit 18 there was actually a larger drop-off in the female population than the male population.” The study looked at more than 9,000 young men and women between the ages of 12 and 29. Researchers studied their activity levels by asking if they were meeting the recommended daily levels of activity. For children and teens under the age of 20, recommendations call for 60 minutes per day, or 420 minutes per week of moderate to vigorous activity. For young adults older than 20, it recommends to achieve 145 minutes of exercise per week. It’s not just about weight Physical activity is important for all young people, especially young women because they can develop bone density issues that become larger problems as they age, Lorring says. Up until about their mid-20s, women have a surplus where they are building more bone than they’re losing. However, once women reach their mid-20s, they lose the ability to make those gains and only make enough bone to replace what’s lost. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/many-young-women-dont-exercise-enough-after-graduating-from-high-school/?utm_campaign=cc%20posts&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=080618%20women&cvosrc Story: Think, North of Never Land. Chapter 1