Why Australians Should Increase Physical Activity Levels and Curb Sedentary Behaviours

Why should Australians increase physical
activity levels and curb sedentary behaviours

Immediate impacts of physical inactivity and
sedentary lifestyle
Obesity and overweight in the nation
• health issues of overweight and obesity mainly describe the health
conditions when individuals are found to be possessing fat to an abnormal
extent (Sink et al., 2015)
• increases chances of complications like cardiovascular disorders, diabetes,
hypercholesterimia, osteoarthritis and others

Physical activities and sedentary lifestyle
• In order to avoid health complications, it becomes extremely important
for every individual to undertake physical activities and exercises and
replace sedentary behavior by active lifestyles.
• physical activities and being active results in burning huge amount of
calories
• will prevent accumulation of the calories and prevent obesity

Important statistics:
• Australian bureau of statistics are of the opinion that about 56% of the
adults in the nation in the year 2014-2015 were not found to be
sufficiently physically active.
• In the same year, about 52% of the adults belonging to the age cohort of
18-64 were not physically active where 54% of the females and 51% of the
males were found to be not sufficiently active (Gibbs et al., 2015).