A growing number of people in Canada and globally are physically inactive, the World Health Organization said in a new study, calling it a 'silent threat.'
journal on Tuesday showed that more than a third of the global adult population — or roughly 1.8 billion people — did not meet the WHO’s recommended levels of
In Canada, 37.2 per cent of adults were reported as physically inactive in 2022, the WHO study showed, going up from 31.1 per cent in 2010 and 25.6 per cent in 2000. If these trends continue, by 2030, the prevalence of physical inactivity in Canada could go up to 41.4 per cent, the WHO estimates.“Unfortunately, the world is not going into the right direction,” said Ruediger Krech, WHO’s director of health promotion, during a virtual news conference.
It concluded that about half the countries, including Canada, have increasing trends of physical inactivity, while the other half have made progress over the past decade. “This 37 per cent might be closer to 45 per cent, getting close to half of the population being physically inactive,” he said in an interview with Global News.On average, women continued to be less active than men around the world with a difference of five percentage points, data showed.High-income countries had a greater prevalence of physical inactivity when compared with low-income countries, but the highest levels of inactivity were in the lower-middle income classification.
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