New data from the CDC showed that a quarter of American adults aren't even active enough to protect their health. For all the Pelotons sold in the last two years, millions of Americans are apparently still living a sedentary lifestyle that's believed to be even more harmful to a person's health than smoking.

The greatest concentrations of lazy adults are found in the Southern US and Puerto Rico (areas that are also the poorest per capita in the US).

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Here's more from Bloomberg:

Two years into a pandemic that has normalized work-from-home and moved many social gatherings online, new data from the Centers for Disease Control show that many Americans were couch potatoes long before Covid-19. 

A quarter of U.S. adults aren't active enough to protect their health, according to a CDC study conducted from 2017-2020. The agency released a map on Thursday showing that Puerto Rico and states in the South had the highest prevalence of inactivity, followed by the Midwest, Northeast and the West. Colorado, Utah, Washington and Vermont were the most-active states.