Study: 6.5% of adults active enough to work

ATLANTA - if you think that you do enough physical activity to work for you keep healthy, you are probably wrong.

Health researchers that only about 6.5 percent of American adults meet physical activity guidelines, while they work. And those that do are disproportionately Hispanic men with less than a high school diploma.

The national estimate - the first of its kind - was reported Thursday in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publication, morbidity and mortality Weekly Report. It is based on a national telephone survey 2007.

Somewhere between 45% and 65% of adults say they have enough outside of work to respond to the recommendations of the Government for physical activity, after previous studies.