Despite a governmental push to get children and teens to exercise more, most teens aren’t meeting the fed’s guidelines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, through its Let’s Move program, wants all kids in the United States to spend at least 60 minutes a day in moderate to vigorous activity. According to a new survey, just one in four teens (ages 12-15) actually gets that sort of activity. The other 75 percent fall below—sometimes far below—those governmental guidelines.

On the up side, lots of teens say they sometimes exercise that much, and obesity rates seem to be decreasing slightly. Still, the CDC knows it has a lot more work to do.

“There’s always room for improvement,” says the CDC’s Tala Fakhouri, who authored the study. (Associated Press)

Paul Asay has covered religion for The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Beliefnet.com and The (Colorado Springs) Gazette. He writes about culture for Plugged In and wrote the Batman book God on the Streets of Gotham (Tyndale). He lives in Colorado Springs with wife Wendy and his two children. Follow him on Twitter.