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Podcast: Utah Women & Leadership Podcast
Episode: Utah Girls, Young Women, and Physical Activity
Description: The benefits of physical activity are well documented and improve all aspects of health and overall wellbeing. Globally, on average, 37.1% of women are insufficiently physically active while only 23.4% of men are; this trend is also found in Utah, where 19.4% of women are insufficiently physically active while only 17.6% of men are. While women often live longer than men, they are frequently in worse health. This episode discusses some of the highlights from an August 2021 research snapshot on this topic with Dr. Susan Madsen, Founding Director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project, and Kim Buesser and Rachel Myrer, co-authors on the...