Health disparities between white and black adults in the
South are not connected to a lack of exercise but more likely related to other
factors such as access to health care, socioeconomic status and perhaps
genetics, according to a Vanderbilt study published in PLoS ONE.
In fact, more than 80,000 residents enrolled in the
long-term Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS) spent an equal amount of time
— about nine hours or 60 percent of their waking day — in sedentary behaviors
regardless of race.