The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 40 percent of the U.S. population is sedentary. In the past 10 years alone, the time children ages 8 to 18 spend sitting and watching media has increased from six hours and 19 minutes per day in 1999 to seven hours and 38 minutes in 2009, according to the CDC.
Park Prescriptions also has the potential to lower stress levels and improve symptoms of depression and could help with obesity in children and adults, plan backers said.
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