Does every move really count towards better health?

Abstract

In 2012, as part of the first Lancet Series on physical activity, data from 122 countries and territories were used to produce the first ever estimate of the global burden of physical inactivity among adults, showing a prevalence of 31·1%.1 Now, after more than a decade and using data from 507 surveys with more than 5·7 million people from 163 countries and territories, Tessa Strain and colleagues2 estimated that 31·3% of the adults worldwide are physically inactive and provide insights on the effect of inactivity on global health.

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