Only one in four adults in South Korea engages in moderate or higher intensity physical activity. In contrast, the rate of physical inactivity among South Korean adults is nearly twice as high as the ...

Public health experts have worked hard to remind us about the importance of exercise—for mental as well as physical health. Research has linked physical activity to alleviating symptoms of depression; ...

A recent study by researchers from World Health Organization (WHO), together with academic colleagues and published in The Lancet Global Health journal, found that nearly one third (31 percent) of the ...

Objective: To investigate the relationships between the time spent in specific intensities of activity and inactivity, cardiorespiratory fitness and body composition in children. Methods: A ...

Objectives To compare hospitalisation rates, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and mortality for patients with COVID-19 who were consistently inactive, doing some activity or consistently meeting ...

This encyclopedic article explains how prolonged inactivity affects cardiovascular, muscular, and connective tissue systems ...