Sedentary lifestyles are
responsible for 14.6% of all deaths in Italy, equal to about
88,200 cases per year.
They result in 1.6 billion euros in direct healthcare costs
for the four pathologies that are most closely linked to them:
breast cancer, colon-rectal cancer, Type 2 diabetes and coronary
artery disease.
An increase in physical activity and healthier lifestyles
would lead to savings of over 2 billion euros for the national
health service in terms of specialist services, tests, hospital
care and medicines, according to an Istisan report by Istituto
Superiore di Sanità(ISS), the health ministry and the Italian
National Olympic Committee (CONI) presented on Wednesday.
Only half of Italian adults get the recommended amount of
physical activist and one child out of every four engages in
games requiring physical movement only one day a week (for at
least an hour).
World Health Organization (WHO) data show that one in every
four adults and 80% of adolescents do not get the recommended
level of physical activity.
In Europe, over a third of the adult population and two
thirds of adolescents do not get enough exercise.
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