Physical inactivity kills 5 million a year: (Lancet)report

AFP via Yahoo News ^ | 7-17-2012 | AFP

[Sir Napsalot]

A third of the world's adults are physically inactive, and the couch potato lifestyle kills about five million people every year, experts said in the medical journal The Lancet on Wednesday.

"Roughly three of every 10 individuals aged 15 years or older -- about 1.5 billion people -- do not reach present physical activity recommendations," they said in a report that described the problem as a "pandemic."

The picture for adolescents is even more worrying, with four out of five 13- to 15-year-olds not moving enough, it said.

Physical inactivity was described for the study as failing to do 30 minutes of moderate physical activity five times a week, 20 minutes of vigorous activity three times a week, or a combination of the two.

Inactivity increases with age, is higher in women than in men, and more prevalent in high-income countries, the researchers found.

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[Madame Dufarge]

And the fools refuse to see.

[TigersEye]

They truly are fools. Those excerpts were gleaned by the briefest scanning of the bill. No doubt there is much more buried in it. Just looking at the requirements put on doctors in that short excerpt there is no way they could comply. They would have no time to see patients and couldn't possibly bill enough to cover the cost of all the paperwork. Especially when the gov cost cutters start hacking away at every jot and tittle in their billings.

No wonder 0bamaCare is now projected to cost 7Xs as much as originally stated and hasn't even gone into effect yet. I said it long before it was the law; 0bamaCare will bury our economy and destroy the practice of medicine. This ship of fools is setting sail on a Viking funeral boat.

[Billthedrill]

They may be onto something. I’ve charted it, and yes, physical inactivity does increase with age, but it was the far end of the chart that convinced me. After death, it appears to cease altogether. Who knew?