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<br /> 26 <br /> <br />Physical Activity, Nutrition & Healthy Weight <br /> <br />Physical Activity & Nutrition <br />Orange County has shown improvements in <br />residents with a healthy weight. However, the <br />percentage of adults meeting recommendations for <br />exercise and fruit and vegetable consumption lags <br />behind our peers. <br /> <br />According to national surveys, adults show <br />negative trends in both physical activity and <br />nutrition. Adults should receive at least 150 <br />minutes of moderate-intense physical activity <br />(PA) per week. Children and adolescents are <br />recommended to receive one hour of PA daily. <br /> <br /> 43.2% of adults did not meet aerobic nor <br />strengthening guidelines. <br /> <br /> 78% of Orange County high schoolers do not get <br />60 minutes of exercise/day. <br /> <br />Future Public Health interventions should note that 5% of survey respondents feel that exercising is too <br />expensive and that there are no safe places to exercise, as shown in figure 19. <br />The amount of fruit you need to consume depends on age, sex, and level of physical activity with the <br />average being between 1 and 2 cups per day. For instance, children 2 -8 years should consume 1 to 1 ½ <br />cups; girls 9-18 years should consume 1 ½ cups; boys 9-18 years should consume 1 ½ - 2 cups; women <br />19 and over should consume 1 ½ - 2 cups and men 19 and over should consume 2 cups.45. <br /> <br /> Student fruit and vegetable consumption is improving compared to previous years; however, <br />Orange County still performs worse than the US. <br /> <br /> 45% of high schoolers do not eat one or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day. National <br />recommendations far exceed one serving each of fruits and vegetables per day, meaning many more <br />students likely still do not meet national recommendations. <br /> <br /> 75.4% of Orange County adults do not eat 5+ fruits or veggies per day. <br />28% <br />24%15% <br />8% <br />8% <br />6% <br />4%3% <br />3% <br />1% <br />Figure 19: Reasons why survey respondents <br />don't exercise <br />I don't have time <br />I'm too tired to exercise <br />I don't like to exercise <br />I have no one to exercise <br />with <br />I don’t have convenient <br />exercise facilities <br />I'm physically disabled <br />It costs too much <br />my job is physical or hard <br />labor <br />Exercise is not important to <br />me <br />There is no safe place to <br />exercise