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Did you know that according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Institute of Health and Welfare
- more than half (55%) of adults do not meet the physical activity guidelines. 🤦♂️
- 2 in 3 (70%) children aged 2 to 17 do not meet the guidelines 🙍🏽
- only 3 in 10 pregnant women meet the guidelines 👶
- only 2% of teenagers aged 13 to 17 meet the guidelines 👩🦰
- almost half (44%) of working-age adults spend much of their workday sitting👩💻
- physical inactivity is responsible for more than 6% of the cancer burden in Australia, second only to tobacco smoking
the diseases most closely linked to physical inactivity are diabetes, bowel cancer, uterine cancer, dementia, breast cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke. 🩺
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