'Wake-up call': third of adults not doing enough physical activity

Medical Xpress / AFP / The Lancet Global Health ^ | June 26, 2024 | Tessa Strain et al

[ConservativeMind]

Nearly a third of all adults are not doing enough physical activity, posing a growing threat to health across the world, a major study said on Wednesday.

More than 31 percent of adults—1.8 billion people—did not get the recommended amount of physical exercise in 2022, an increase of five percentage points from 2010, according to a study by the World Health Organization and other researchers.

"Physical inactivity is a silent threat to global health, contributing significantly to the burden of chronic diseases," said Ruediger Krech, director of the WHO's health promotion department.

"Unfortunately the world is not going in the right direction," he told an online press conference.

To be healthy, the WHO recommends all adults spend at least 150 minutes every week doing moderate-intensity physical activity—which can include walking, cycling or even household chores—or at least 75 minutes of more vigorous exercise, such as running or competing in sport.

A combination of the two will also get people over the line.

Not getting this level of exercise increases the risk of people developing heart disease, diabetes, some cancers as well as mental health problems, Krech said.

[ConservativeMind]

Move more, regardless of the WHO being the one championing this new study result.

[ConservativeMind]

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[kiryandil]

the WHO recommends all adults spend at least 150 minutes every week doing moderate-intensity physical activity—which can include walking, cycling or even household chores—or at least 75 minutes of more vigorous exercise, such as running or competing in sport.

150 minutes is 2 and a half hours, or 20-25 minutes a day, 7 days a week.

75 minutes is an hour and a quarter, or 10-15 minutes a day, 7 days a week.

[goodnesswins]

Or else???? One world wants to monitor EVERYONE. How do they know, anyway? They would never guess the exercise I get at my age. They can bugger off.

[Lizavetta]

Get an iPod, download awesome conservative/libertarian voices (might I recommend Armstrong and Getty out of KSTE in Sacramento, and they’re funny too), put on your sneakers and WALK. Move. Do *something*.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

75 minutes of more vigorous exercise, such as running or competing in sport

Does shooting pool count? I can't run anymore because my back and knees don't like it.

[oldtech]

Well, I know I don’t get enough physical activity. I also know what hat happens if I try to. It usually results in pain or other indications that I need to slow down, like weakness or shortness of breath. When you get old, you can’t have everything & you surely know by then that you won’t be on this earth forever.

[raybbr]

Here in CT I would bet at least half the population is obese and another 30% seriously overweight. It’s disgusting. Two young women and ones husband in church today must have been close to half a ton.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

At 44 years of age(1990) while exercising, I blew a mitral valve. Got open heart surgery. So much for exercise. Now have an artificial valve and am on warfarin.

Keep your exercise!

[Maine Mariner]

My knees don’t allow me to run. But I walk 60 to 80 minutes a day on the treadmill at 1.7 mph with a 10% incline

[bigbob]

Look at some photos from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, they look at the people in your local parks and stores.

Someone needs to modify all cellphones so they slow to a crawl when the users stays in one place too long...

[redfreedom]

I get more that what is recommended.

And I agree a third of the people I see are obese. What is refreshing is to see a slim and trim lady of any adult age with a great figure. It’s really rare and is a head turner.

What’s disgusting is an ultra fat slob of a woman wearing those skin tight whatever they are’s showing the crack of her rear. She probably thinks she’s sexy, but people like me just gag and hold back the vomit.

[glorgau]

mmmmm, Krispy Kreme.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

We have a treadmill which my wife uses following spine surgery, but I hate the thing. I walk outdoors nearly every morning, generally 3 to 4 miles on the local roads and in the desert.

[TheWriterTX]

COVID wrecked my lungs, my digestive system, and my neurological system. From trekking across Italy to couch potato; being chronically ill can mess with your energy level.

I went from 130 lbs. to 166 after 2 years of being sedentary.

I’m 5’8”.

I’ve finally started to exercise again. Lost 4 lbs. In the last month. I’m getting in about 45 minutes a day. My goal is to get back down to 130 lbs.

I want to be a good looking corpse.

[T.B. Yoits]

From the article: ...according to a study by the World Health Organization...

Stopped reading right there. The World Health Organization has less than zero credibility.

[gundog]

How do they know, anyway?

Phone locators?

[Maine Mariner]

That is a pretty good walk. We are getting a new one this week. We wore out the old one!

[laplata]

I agree. They can bugger off.

[laplata]

I have an 88 year old neighbor and she is always walking or working in her garden. She pays a teen age boy to mow her lawn but she even did that after her husband died. And she loves to laugh and be happy.