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COVID aside, how we manage our health needs to change Without action, inequality in health is going to increase exponentially together with global warming and environmental degradation.
Many parts of the world are currently under restrictions to prevent unmanageable strain on hospitals and health care systems. However, experts argue that even without COVID-19 a series of catastrophic events are unavoidable in the long term unless we change our approach to human and environmental health.
In a perspective published in the prestigious journal PLOS Medicine, an international team of leading scientists write that: “Waiting for millions of people, who eat unhealthy food and engage in harmful lifestyles, to end up in out-patient clinics or hospitals with symptoms of chronic diseases is unethical, and financially and environmentally unsustainable.”
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No progress: Physical inactivity remains global pandemic Experts are calling for urgent action to improve physical activity worldwide, with research showing no progress in nearly a decade and that the Olympics are a missed opportunity to change health at the population level.
A new three-paper series in The Lancet, co-led by a University of Sydney academic and featuring University of Sydney authors, reveals that since the 2016 Olympics worldwide progress to improve physical activity has stalled with deaths associated with inactivity still at more than five million per year.
The slow progress on inactivity has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with lockdowns likely associated with overall less physical activity worldwide.
Sydney [Australia], June 6 (ANI): During a recent study led by the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre observed medical data from nearly half a million people and found that people who are obese and overweight worsens liver-damaging effects of alcohol.