Where is the Couch Potato Capital of Georgia?
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 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 — with 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 Georgia need to get out more.
Here are the most inactive counties in Georgia:
10. Turner County: 31.6% of people are physically inactive
9. Macon County: 31.7% of people are physically inactive
8. Pierce County: 32.5% of people are physically inactive
7. Wheeler County: 32.6% of people are physically inactive
6. Randolph County: 32.6% of people are physically inactive
5. Miller County: 33.2% of people are physically inactive
4. Treutlen County: 33.3% of people are physically inactive
3. Colquitt County: 33.3% of people are physically inactive
2. Berrien County: 33.4% of people are physically inactive
1. Coffee County: 33.8% of people are physically inactive
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This story was originally published July 6, 2015 at 1:47 PM with the headline "Where is the Couch Potato Capital of Georgia?."