Inactivity puts nearly 1.8 billion adults at risk of disease

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June 27, 2024 at 11:50

The results demonstrate a worrying trend towardsphysical inactivity among adults, this having increased by around 5 percentage points between 2010 and 2022, according to a study carried out by researchers from theWorld Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with academic colleagues and published in the journal The Lancet Global Health. If the trend continues, the level of inactivity is expected to increase further to 35% by 2030, and currently the world is far from on track to meet the global goal of reducing physical inactivity by 2030.

L’OMS recommends that adults spend 150 minutes on a physical activity of moderate intensity, or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity activity, or equivalent, per week.

Physical inactivity puts adults at increased risk of cardiovascular illnesses such as the heart attack and the strokethe Type 2 diabetesthe dementia and the cancers as the cancer you be and the Colon Cancer.

The highest rates of physical inactivity were observed in the high-income Asia-Pacific region (48%) and South Asia (45%), with inactivity levels in other regions ranging from 28 % in high-income Western countries to 14% in Oceania. In light of these results, WHO calls on countries to strengthen the implementation of their policies to promote and enablephysical activity speak sport mass and local practice, as well as hobbies and the modes of transport active (walking, cycling and using public transport), among other measures.