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• Physical activity and Fertility : Jutimala B Bhattacharyya

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• Nearly 50% adults in India insufficiently physically active in 2022: Lancet Study

  This was up by five per cent from 26.4 per cent of the adults worldwide insufficiently engaging in physical activity in 2010, they found, and if the 2010-2022 trends continued, the authors said that the global target of improving physical activity engagement by 15 per cent would not be met.

  

• Poverty is linked to obesity in teens, claims new WHO report

  ​The affordability and accessibility of healthy food options are often limited for families with lower incomes, leading to a higher reliance on processed and sugary foods, which can have detrimental effects on adolescent health," said Martin Weber, the WHO Europe programme manager for child and teen health.

  

• Can working in the night shift make you fat and obese?

  Night shifts disrupt the body's circadian rhythm, increasing the risk of diabetes and obesity. Alterations in melatonin production play a role in these health risks.

  

• Low-income teens at higher risk of obesity: WHO

  ​The affordability and accessibility of healthy food options are often limited for families with lower incomes, leading to a higher reliance on processed and sugary foods, which can have detrimental effects on adolescent health," said Martin Weber, the WHO Europe programme manager for child and teen health.

  

• Study links childhood inactivity with heart enlargement, finds light activity could reverse effects

  ​For the study, the researchers followed nearly 1,700 children from the UK's University of Bristol's 'Children of the 90s cohort' from age 11 until 24 years. At the start of the study, the children spent about six hours a day performing sedentary activities, which increased to nine hours a day as they became young adults.

  

• Study finds key elements for health: 4 hours of exercise, 8 hours of sleep recommended

  The international team, led by Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, analysed the behaviour of more than 2,000 people within a 24-hour day to determine the right mix of time spent sitting, sleeping, standing and being physically active for desirable health.

  

• Health-related behaviours found to be stable during middle adulthood in study

  Health-related behaviours adopted by people are relatively stable during middle adulthood, beginning when one turns 40 years old, new research has found. Following individuals over a 19-year period, researchers observed largely positive changes, such as reduced smoking and a general precaution concerning their health.

  

• Study links being online with no sleep, exercise to higher risk of school absence

  For the study, the researchers analysed the data of more than 86,000 adolescents aged 14-16, taken from the School Health Promotion study, a national biennial survey. The teens were asked about their relationship with parents, including how often they shared concerns with them, along with their sleep and physical activity.

  

• Physical activity lowers heart disease risk by reducing brain activity linked to stress, study finds

  Researchers found that lowering of such stress-related brain activity were driven by "gains in function" in the prefrontal cortex -- the region that helps in decision-making and adopting goal-oriented behaviour -- and is known to restrain brain stress centres of the brain.