A recent survey from the Cancer Council indicated that Australian adults do not exercise enough. In order to stay healthy and free from cancer or other chronic diseases, we should maintain a balance between a healthy diet and stay physically active than that of the present.
There are a couple of reasons why 61% who have participated with this study do not exercise. One is that Australian adults do not have time, and some experience like muscle ache and blister or gym costs also acting as a deterrent.
The Cancer Council's research also found that over 200,000 cancer cases could be prevented in Australia, over the next 25 years, if all Australians maintained a healthy weight and met the physical activity guidelines for cancer prevention.
It maintains that if Australians increase their exercise level to meet the healthy guidelines which are 150-300 minutes per week, 1800 cases of cancer could be prevented each year. Moreover, the Council also said that if those who were diagnosed with cancer stay physically active they can reduce the risk of cancer coming back.
Wendy Watson from the Cancer Council elaborates that people need to start factoring exercise into each day and manage our daily routine to exercise whether walking to a bus stop or parking car further away or walking with friends during lunch time.
Emmanuel Stamatakis is a Professor of Physical Activity and Lifestyle, at the University of Sydney, added that we should see the long term benefits of exercising because it cannot keep our weigh intake overnight.
Professor Stamatakis mentioned that International studies have also shed a light that in the last three decades we do not maintain a healthy diet, therefore, adults population are less healthy. Thus it is very important to remember that a healthy diet, healthy lifestyle and staying active go hands in hands.
