Nigeria: 1.8 billion adults risk dying from lack of physical activity — WHO

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that nearly one-third (31 percent) of adults worldwide, approximately 1.8 billion people, did not meet the recommended levels of physical activity in 2022.

The study, undertaken by researchers from the WHO together with academic colleagues and published in The Lancet Global Health journal, points to a worrying trend of physical inactivity among adults, which has increased by about 5 percentage points between 2010 and 2022.

If the trend…