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As few as 1 in 20 English adults may be meeting physical activity guidelines, especially strengthening exercise, in study of over 250,000 people - with those who are female, older, or in deprived areas being especially unlikely to exercise enough

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As few as 1 in 20 English adults may be meeting physical activity guidelines, especially strengthening exercise, in study of over 250,000 people - with those who are female, older, or in deprived areas being especially unlikely to exercise enough

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0267277

Article Title: Who is meeting the strengthening physical activity guidelines by definition: A cross-sectional study of 253 423 English adults?

Author Countries: U.K., Colombia

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.


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