With our modern sedentary lifestyle heavily influencing our health in many ways, many diseases can affect humans more severely. Our evolution has reached a point where one of the greatest dangers to our health is staying too long. Conditions caused by insufficient physical activity are sometimes referred to as hypokinetic disorders.
These ailments include all types of cardiovascular disease, some cancers, back problems, diabetes, high blood pressure, and many others. Around the world, at least 1.4 billion adults are putting themselves at risk because of low time spent with physical activities, according to a report by the World Health Organization published in the scientific journal Lancet Global Health .
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The physical activity guidelines recommended by the WHO are as follows: healthy adults should do at least two and a half hours of activity moderate-intensity activity—or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity activity—per week, plus at least two muscle-strengthening days.
The new report found that, worldwide, 32% of women and 23% of men do not exercise enough, even when accounting for time spent walking, cycling to work, and physical activities in the work.
