Posted on 07/20/2012 9:44:27 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
People across the world are falling so far short on exercise that the problem has become a global pandemic, causing nearly a tenth of deaths worldwide and killing roughly as many people as smoking, researchers warned this week as an alarming series of studies was published in the Lancet.
Eight out of 10 youngsters age 13 to 15 don't get enough exercise, according to one of the Lancet studies released Tuesday, and nearly a third of adults fall short. The problem is even worse for girls and women, who are less active than boys and men, researchers found.
The results are fatal. Lack of exercise is tied to worldwide killers such as heart disease, diabetes and breast and colon cancer. If just a quarter of inactive adults got enough exercise, more than 1.3 million deaths could be prevented worldwide annually, researchers said. Half an hour of brisk walking five times a week would do the trick.
Despite its deadly consequences, lack of exercise doesn’t get the same funding or attention as other health problems, said Pedro Hallal, associate professor at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil and author of one of the studies.
“It gets underfunded and undervalued,” Hallal said. “But it’s huge everywhere in the world.”
In the widest study ever of the scope of the problem, Hallal and his fellow researchers found that although wealthier countries are more likely to fall short on physical activity, people in countries across the globe are getting too little exercise. The new research covered 122 nations representing 89% of the world's population.
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What I’ve noticed is kids don’t play outside much anymore.
Growing up, we were outside pretty much all we could be, in the woods, along the creeks, riding bikes, playing sandlot... had to be home before dark.
‘Course I’m old..
Oh, yeah...I don't want to live until I'm 100+ yo.
FMCDH(BITS)
A very astute observation...(all the while the existing regime is trying very hard to get more and more on food stamps).
FMCDH(BITS)
The junk food industry is dozens of times the size of the tobacco industry.
If tobacco was good for a few hundred billion$, imagine the size of the take in store for the nanny bureaucrats!
WOO HOOOO!
... First they came for the Jews, and I said and did nothing, because I'm not a Jew...
Are you suggesting that all of Hussein's and Holder's peeps are affluent?
Food for thought...
Yes you could. Small people usually can.
Here's a different view, about "quality of life."
Miss [Florence] King on smoking: "It's this: I think suicide qua suicide is weak and shameful, but maybe, if I just keep smoking, I can hasten my exit from this Walpurgisnacht called America and escape the mephitic cultural collapse that Nice-Nelly conservatism is powerless to stop.
"This is probably wishful thinking in view of my family's medical history, but it points up another benefit of cigarettes we no longer hear about: consolation. Even the word is gone from the language now, but it was what came through in World War II newsreels showing weary soldiers and refugees lighting up. In their most despairing moments a cigarette was all they had, and increasingly I feel the same way.
"There goes my chance at Keynote 2000, even if I work on my perkiness and arrange to rent a baby."
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