26/02/2025
The World Health Organization defines physical activity as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure.🤸♀️
Popular ways to be active include walking, cycling, wheeling, sports, active recreation and play, and can be done at any level of skill and for enjoyment by everybody.🏃♀️🚴♂️🏋🏻♂️
Regular physical activity is proven to help prevent and manage noncommunicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and several cancers. It also helps prevent hypertension, maintain healthy body weight and can improve mental health, quality of life and well-being💆♂️🧘♀️
So how much of physical activity is recommended?🤷♂️
• One should spend at least 30 - 60 mins per day doing moderate or vigorous aerobic exercise.
• One should do muscle-strengthening activities.
• One should also limit the amount of time spent being sedentary and use sedentary time to do light to moderate aerobic exercises.
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