inactivity

(Newser) - Rising global heat is sending people indoors and off their feet—a move that could drive hundreds of thousands of premature deaths every year. A new study in The Lancet Global Health estimates that as the planet warms, reduced physical activity driven by higher temperatures could fuel 470,000 to...

(Newser) - One in five US adults on average report doing zero exercise outside of work in the past 30 days, according to a new report from the United Health Foundation. For its America's Health Rankings , the company reviewed government data to rank US states based on the percentage of adults...

(Newser) - The people of the world need to get off their butts, scientists have concluded after an extensive review of global mortality statistics, which revealed that physical inactivity is killing more people than smoking. Researchers, declaring inactivity to be a pandemic, estimate that out of the 57 million or so deaths...