From the World Health Organization (WHO)

Sedentary lifestyles increase all causes of mortality, double the risk of
cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and obesity, and increase the risks of
colon cancer, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, lipid disorders, depression
and anxiety. According to WHO, 60 to 85% of people in the world‹from both
developed and developing countries‹lead sedentary lifestyles, making it one
of the more serious yet insufficiently addressed public health problems of
our time. It is estimated that nearly two-thirds of children are also
insufficiently active, with serious implications for their future health.

Physical inactivity, along increasing tobacco use and poor diet and
nutrition, are increasingly becoming part of today¹s lifestyle leading to
the rapid rise of diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, or
obesity. Chronic diseases caused by these risk factors are now the leading
causes of death in every part of world except sub-Saharan Africa, where
infectious diseases such as AIDS are still the leading problem. These
chronic diseases are, for the most part, entirely preventable. Countries and
people could save precious lives and health care resources by investing in
preventing these diseases, says WHO.

Get off your "Fatty-Acids" and go play.

Leroy Fanning
Health & Human Performance Department