Impact of Physical Activity on Diabetes

About the Video
Basic Epidemiology of the disease: According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the incidence of Diabetes has tripled in the last thirty years. The Surgeon General says that 63% of all Americans are overweight and Obesity is responsible for 300,000 deaths/ year.
Target Audience: Low Income Families that do not have access to work out facilities as well as a whole lot of time.
Main Message: This video can be used by people around the world to achieve better health by seeing the benefits of doing simple physical exercise.
Recommendation: Physical activity leads to decreased incidence of obesity, which indirectly leads to a decreased occurrence of diabetes.
References
American Sports Data. (2008). The Latest Statistics on America's Obesity Epidemic. Retrieved,
http://www.americansportsdata.com/obesitystats.asp.

CDC - National Diabetes Surveillance System. (2008). Retrieved,
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/incidence/.

David B. Allison et al (1999). Annual Deaths Attributable to Obesity in the United States. The Journal of American Medical Association, 282, (16): 1530 -1538.

Kriska, AM, et al. (2003). Physical Activity, Obesity, and the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in a High-Risk Population. American Journal of Epidemiology, 158, (7): 669-675.

McGinnis JM et al. (2002). The case for more active policy attention to health promotion. Health Affairs (Millwood). 21(2):78-93.Review.

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[maltesegirl1976]

i'm sedentary but i don't have problem with my health also i eat a lot (the same a person trains with weights do), but i'm 59 kgs and 160 cm tall, i am 21 per cent fat and 46 per cent lean mass (of which another 47 is water weight), i'm a female by the way. cud this be genetics then?

[extensivelover]

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thanks