Work and Home Provide Most Physical Activity for Latinos

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Posted on: March 20th, 2006
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“Latino men and women get most of their daily physical activity from work and home-related tasks, rather than recreational exercise, according to a study in the current issue of Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Researchers also found significant differences in how Latino men and women get most of their physical activity. Among the 155 people followed in the study, men participated in more work-related physical activity than women, while women engaged in more household-related physical activity.

Latinos who were more “Americanized” in their language and culture than others had lower overall and work-related activity rates, perhaps because they did not work in manual labor jobs, say researchers David Marquez of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Edward McAuley of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.”

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