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A new study published in medical journal The Lancet has claimed that sedentary
lifestyles and a lack of
physical exercise are responsible for 5.3 million deaths - just as many as
smoking - throughout the world.
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18 Jul 2012
Office workers who spend their days sitting down are urged to exercise for at least one
hour each day in order to combat the serious risks their sedentary lifestyle is posing on
their health.
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28 Jul 2016
Teenagers' 'incessant' use of social media is radically reducing the time they spend sleeping and
exercising – and could have a detrimental effect on mental health and wellbeing.
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16 Aug 2019
Persistent and rising levels of lifestyle disease across the world have exacerbated the
effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The
Lancet.
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20 Oct 2020
A group of influential doctors and medical experts has called for governments globally to take tougher action in the battle against obesity levels.
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26 Aug 2011
A recent study has suggested that football participation in professional
environments could be a good method to get men to lose weight.
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29 Jan 2014
Sedentary lifestyles are costing the global economy $67.5bn (£51bn, €60bn) a year in healthcare
and productivity losses – and developed nations are bearing the brunt of the inactivity epidemic.
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01 Aug 2016
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a mathematical model that predicts
how weight and body fat in children respond to changes in diet and physical activity, with the results of the
study appearing in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
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30 Jul 2013
One of the largest ever mass studies on the benefits of exercise has concluded that just 15 minutes of physical activity a day can boost a person's life expectancy by up to three years.
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16 Aug 2011
Diet and exercise can reduce the risk of contracting diabetes by more than a third in susceptible people according to a new study published in The Lancet.
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03 Nov 2009
Children who exercise for at least one hour a day, get nine to 11 hours of sleep at night
and spend two hours or less in front of screens return 'significantly higher' mental test scores.
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22 Nov 2018
The UK is the fourth worst country in the world for cancer caused by obesity in
men, a recent study has discovered.
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03 Dec 2014
Desk-bound office workers should schedule an hour’s exercise a day, says a study in The Lancet
HCM issue 9 2016
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the majority of adolescents worldwide are
not sufficiently physically active, putting their current and future health at risk.
news •
22 Nov 2019
Obesity is a disease which cannot be reliably prevented or cured with current
frontline methods, according to a feature published in The Lancet.
news •
13 Mar 2015
Premature mortality in the UK is “persistently and significantly” below the mean
of other European Union countries, according to analysis of British health data
published this month.
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05 Mar 2013
If sitting is the new smoking, how can the fitness industry help sedentary workers to get moving? We ask the experts
HCM issue 11 2016
Being severely obese can cut a person’s life short by up to eight years and cause
decades of ill health, according to a study carried out by researchers from McGill
University in Canada.
news •
11 Dec 2014
Any form of physical activity reduces the risk of death and cardiovascular disease
irrespective of a person’s home country or income, according to a study which tracked the
amount of exercise of more than 130,000 people in 17 countries.
news •
25 Sep 2017
Around 12,000 cases of cancer each year are caused by people being
overweight or obese, according to a new study published in the Lancet medical
journal.
news •
14 Aug 2014
New science has revealed a potential solution to age-related diseases which works on a
systemic basis, improving overall health and reducing the need to treat individual, age-
related
ailments.
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19 Sep 2019
Contrary to current health advice, being overweight cuts the risk of dementia – according
to an analysis of nearly two million British people in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.
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13 Apr 2015
Office workers can boost their health by taking part in just one walking-based meeting per week, US researchers say
HCM issue 10 2016
A 'shocking' rise in childhood obesity figures means Britain must act now or risk the scales
tipping further, according to ukactive.
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14 Oct 2017
Humphrey Cobbold, CEO of Pure Gym, appeared on BBC Question Time last night,
along with Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the Lancet, Emily Thornberry, shadow foreign
secretary and Robert Jenrick, housing, communities and local government secretary.
news •
27 Mar 2020
A report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has declared that there is a "clear link" between sunbeds and skin cancer.
news •
29 Jul 2009
The removal of physical activity from the QOF is a blow to our sector, and we must lobby to have it reinstated, says Kate Cracknell
HCM issue 1 2014
Researchers working with a hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania have claimed that
the global obesity epidemic is more likely due to over-eating - rather than
through increasingly sedentary lifestyles.
news •
26 Jul 2012
Encouraging people to improve their diet and exercise more may not be enough to
overcome the obesity epidemic, according to several new research papers.
news •
12 Feb 2015
As the NHS opens its door to collaboration, the fitness sector must show how its services can deliver on the public health agenda, says Kate Cracknell
HCM issue 1 2017
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consumer demand for strength training with a raft of new and
innovative launches and concepts, as Steph Eaves reports
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As health club operators move to incorporate recovery into their
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look at what cryotherapy and ice bathing can add to the equation
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New research has found BMI to be a highly inaccurate measure of childhood obesity, leading current thinking and policy based on it into question
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