Third of adults are not getting enough physical activity, says WHO

Almost a third of the world’s adults, around 1.8 billion people, are at risk of disease from not getting enough exercise, and the number continues to grow, the World Health Organization has warned.The proportion of the global population that does not achieve the recommended level of physical activity increased by 5% from 2010 to 2022 and will likely continue to grow in the coming years, experts told reporters at a press conference in Geneva on 25 June.Their report, which used 2022 data from 197 countries and territories and was published in Lancet Global Health, predicted future exercise trends and their potential effects on health.1Rüdiger Krech, WHO’s director of health promotion, said, “Over 10 years, 500 million new cases of non-communicable diseases with a cost to the public health system of US$300bn [£237bn; €281bn] could be prevented if populations met the recommended levels of physical activity.”WHO has set a target of…
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