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How Active Are You?

As longtime alive readers will know, keeping active with regular exercise benefits you in many ways. It helps strengthen the heart and lungs, keeps your body young, helps maintain a healthy weight, provides energy throughout the day, and aids in disease prevention. So how active are you? Take this quiz to see how you rate on the fitness scale.
1) How many hours do you devote to exercise each week?
   0 to 2 hours
   2 to 4 hours
   4 to 8 hours
   8 or more hours
2) How often do you participate in sports (organized sports, hiking, running, bicycling, in-line skating)?
   daily
   weekly
   monthly
   rarely or never
3) How much of your free time is spent doing something active?
   0 to 5 percent
   6 to 15 percent
   16 to 30 percent
   31 percent or more
4) How do you usually get to work or school?
   by car
   by bus or transit
   walking or bicycling
5) What kind of activities do you do at work?
   heavy labour
   some lifting and walking
   some standing or walking
   mostly sitting
6) How often do you do manual work around the house?
   daily
   weekly
   monthly
   rarely or never
7) When going up one or two floors, do you usually take the stairs, escalator, or elevator?
   stairs
   escalator or elevator
   riding the escalator or elevator
8) How many hours daily do you watch TV or browse the Internet?
   0 to 2 hours
   3 to 4 hours
   More than 4 hours
9) What types of food do you usually eat for dinner?
   vegetables and low-fat foods
   processed foods
   fast food
10) When was the last time you did strengthening exercises such as sit-ups or push-ups?
   this morning
   yesterday
   last month
   last year