
09/06/2025
🤸🏽♀️ Regular physical activity provides significant physical and mental health benefits.
In adults, physical activity helps:
🔹 Prevent and manage noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes
🔹 Reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety
🔹 Enhance brain health
🔹 Improve overall wellbeing
In children and adolescents, physical activity helps:
🔸 Promote bone health
🔸 Encourage healthy growth
🔸 Encourage development of muscle
🔸 Improve motor and cognitive development
🏃🏽 Any physical activity is better than none. Here’s how to get your physical activity levels up:
🤰🏽 Pregnant and postpartum women should get 150 minutes of physical activity per week.
🧔🏽♂️ Adults and older adults should get 150-300 minutes of physical activity per week.
🧒🏼 Children and adolescents should get 60 minutes of physical activity per day.
Now, get moving!
⬇️ WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for all age groups.