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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: Why is India not exercising enough?
Description: A recent study published in the journal The Lancet Global Health, brought out a staggering figure – almost half of all Indians are not sufficiently physically active. Between 2000 and 2022, the number of adults who engaged in insufficient physical activity increased from a little over 22% to 49.4%. Women were found to be more physically inactive than men. Across the world, South Asia was ranked second highest in the number of adults being insufficiently active, after the high-income Asia-Pacific region, which came first.World over, about 1/3 of all adults, 31.3% were not sufficiently physically active, and if this trend continues, researchers said, th...