Many Americans miss exercise goals

They may not fulfill them, but they sure as heck do not "miss" them.

"Many Americans are failing to meet the minimum recommendations for exercise, although confusing guidelines are making it difficult to assess, researchers reported on Thursday.

Depending on which federal exercise recommendations are used, either about half or about two-thirds of Americans meet minimum goals, the team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found."

Well, finally some acknowledgment that there may be something wrong with the guidelines.

There is.

In fact, there are lots of things wrong with the guidelines.

What is interesting here is that the majority or almost a majority of Americans claim that they are following them.

"Under guidelines released by the U.S. Health and Human Services Department in October, the minimum recommended aerobic physical activity is 150 minutes -- two and a half hours -- a week of moderate activity such as brisk walking, or 75 minutes a week of vigorous activity such as running.

Just under 65 percent of adults reached that goal, the CDC said.

The government's Healthy People 2010 objectives call for at least 30 minutes of moderate activity five days a week, or 20 minutes of vigorous activity three days per week. Only 49 percent of those surveyed met these goals."

What is really wrong is that this large number of people think they are actually following the guidelines.

Personally, I don't believe them.

But, if true, then the guidelines must be faulty since so many people remain fat.

"'Existing scientific evidence cannot determine whether the health benefits of 30 minutes of activity, 5 days per week, are any different from the benefits of 50 minutes, 3 days per week,' the report reads...

About a third of Americans are obese and another one-third are overweight, the CDC says, and they are at higher than acceptable risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer."

That is true.

There are no comparable data available to determine what level of physical fitness places a person at a lower risk of developing certain bad illnesses as BMI does for body weight.

If you want to get fit, physically and nutritionally, go here and give yourself a fighting chance.

Following the CDC or any other main stream approach is doomed to fail you.