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Physical Inactivity A Leading Cause Of Disease And Disability, Warns World Health Organization (WHO)
Physical inactivity can have serious implications for people’s health, said the World Health Organization today on the occasion of World Health Day. Approximately 2 million deaths per year are attributed to physical inactivity, prompting WHO to issue a warning that a sedentary lifestyle could very well be among the 10 leading causes of death and disability in the world. more
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World Health Day Fact Sheet: Sedentary Life Style: A Global Public Health Problem
Sedentary lifestyle is a major underlying cause of death, disease, and disability. Approximately 2 million deaths every year are attributable to physical inactivity; and preliminary findings from a WHO study on risk factors suggest that sedentary lifestyle is one of the ten leading causes of death and disability in the world. Physical inactivity increases all causes mortality, doubles the risk of cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, and obesity. It also increases the risks of colon and breast cancer, high blood pressure, lipid disorders, osteoporosis, depression and anxiety. more
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World Health Day Fact Sheet: Sedentary Life Style: A Global Public Health Problem
Levels of inactivity are high in virtually all developed and developing countries. In developed countries more than half of adults are insufficiently active. In the rapidly growing large cities of the developing world, physical inactivity is an even greater problem. Crowding, poverty, crime, traffic, low air quality, and a lack of parks, sports and recreation facilities, and sidewalks make physical activity a difficult choice. For example, in Sâo Paulo, approximately 70% of the population is inactive. more
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World Health Day Fact Sheet: Policy Related To Physical Activity
One of the major challenges in the prevention of noncommunicable diseases and in the promotion of physical activity and other healthy lifestyle choices is communicating the importance of action now in return for future benefits. Despite the fact that prevention has been the major contributor to health gains, including 30 added years of life expectancy, in the past century, most studies of health expenditures indicate that less than five percent of resources are devoted to prevention. more
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“Move For Health”: World Health Day 2002
Over 30% of European adults are considered to be insufficiently active, and levels of physical activity continue to decline. In the majority of European countries, it is estimated that the prevalence of obesity increased by between 10% and 40% between the late 1980s and the late 1990s. Physical inactivity is the second most important risk factor in developed countries, after tobacco smoking. It increases total mortality, doubles the risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and obesity, and substantially increases the risk of high blood pressure, lipid disorders, colon cancer, osteoporosis, depression and anxiety. more
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