Thursday, May 10, 2007 is the day picked by the World Health Organization to Move... Nooo noo noo not pack up your belongings and move from point A to point B but Move your body 
5th World Health Assembly (May 2002) in its resolution WHA55/23 on Diet, Physical Activity and Health which “Urges Member States to celebrate a ‘Move for Health’ day each year to promote physical activity as an essential for health and well being”.
While WHO proposes to Member States to celebrate the “Move for Health” day at a time and duration that best suit them, 10 May of each year is considered by a number of countries and partners for such a celebration.
The Move for Health Day should be considered as part of a larger and sustained “Move for Health Initiative” to promote physical activity and related healthy lifestyles within the world population, throughout the year in the context of an integrated approach to NCDs prevention, control and health promotion. The Initiative will be implemented in collaboration with many partners.
The annual “Move for Health” Day recommended by and to Member States is primarily a national priority, allowing optimal logistics and an exploitation of local sport, social and cultural opportunities. This task is “everybody’s responsibility”: government and development sectors, civil society including NGOs and professional organizations, private sector, communities, individuals, national and international Sport bodies, United Nations Agencies with a leading / coordinating WHO role, and relevant international support partners, countries and institutions.
Available experience and scientific evidence show that the regular practice of appropriate physical activity and sports provides people, both male and female, of all ages and conditions - including disabilities - with a wide range of physical, social and mental health benefits.
It interacts positively with strategies to improve diet, discourage the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs, helps reduce violence, enhances functional capacity and promotes social interaction and integration. Physical activity also has economic benefits especially in terms of reduced health care costs, increased productivity, healthier physical and social environments.
Physical Inactivity is highlighted in the 2002 World Health Report on "Risks to Health-Promoting Healthy Living" as a significant common and preventable risk factor for chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) along with other risks in particular high blood pressure, tobacco use, high cholesterol, low consumption of fruit and vegetables and obesity.
According to WHR 2002, NCDs cause 60% of global deaths and 47% of burden of disease. These estimates expected to rise to 73% and 60% respectively by 2020. 66% of NCD deaths occur in developing countries. Physical inactivity is estimated to cause annually 2 million deaths worldwide. Globally it is estimated to cause about 10-16% of cases each of cases each of breast cancers, colon cancers and diabetes and about 22% of ischaemic heart disease. Estimated attributable fractions are similar in men and women.
Despite its multiple benefits, at least 60% of the world population fails to achieve the minimum recommendation of 30 minutes moderate intensity physical activity daily. More activity may be required for weight control. Physical activity declines with age, falling off from adolescence. Physical activity and physical education is declining in schools worldwide. Inactivity is generally higher among girls and women. It is also spreading in low income urban communities both in developed and developing countries.
This is in part due to the lack of physical activity in leisure time as well as in major life settings (workplace, schools, community, home); It is also the result of people spending higher amounts of time in sedentary behaviors such as watching television, using computers and excessive use of "passive" modes of transport.
Opportunities for people to be physically active exist or can be created in the major domains of everyday life such as at work, in transport, during domestic duties and in leisure time. Appropriate actions need therefore to be taken in order to ensure that the various environments - physical, social, cultural, economic, political, psychological - in which people live encourage and enable all population groups to become and remain physically active throughout life.
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So this Challenge-Ette ( a mini challenge) is to pick an activity that you normally wouldn't do - and do it - learn a new sport, learn a new activity, do something you haven't done i ages (like hula hooping, or roller skating) anything that requires movement.
Just Move!!!!
5th World Health Assembly (May 2002) in its resolution WHA55/23 on Diet, Physical Activity and Health which “Urges Member States to celebrate a ‘Move for Health’ day each year to promote physical activity as an essential for health and well being”.
While WHO proposes to Member States to celebrate the “Move for Health” day at a time and duration that best suit them, 10 May of each year is considered by a number of countries and partners for such a celebration.
The Move for Health Day should be considered as part of a larger and sustained “Move for Health Initiative” to promote physical activity and related healthy lifestyles within the world population, throughout the year in the context of an integrated approach to NCDs prevention, control and health promotion. The Initiative will be implemented in collaboration with many partners.
The annual “Move for Health” Day recommended by and to Member States is primarily a national priority, allowing optimal logistics and an exploitation of local sport, social and cultural opportunities. This task is “everybody’s responsibility”: government and development sectors, civil society including NGOs and professional organizations, private sector, communities, individuals, national and international Sport bodies, United Nations Agencies with a leading / coordinating WHO role, and relevant international support partners, countries and institutions.
Available experience and scientific evidence show that the regular practice of appropriate physical activity and sports provides people, both male and female, of all ages and conditions - including disabilities - with a wide range of physical, social and mental health benefits.
It interacts positively with strategies to improve diet, discourage the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs, helps reduce violence, enhances functional capacity and promotes social interaction and integration. Physical activity also has economic benefits especially in terms of reduced health care costs, increased productivity, healthier physical and social environments.
Physical Inactivity is highlighted in the 2002 World Health Report on "Risks to Health-Promoting Healthy Living" as a significant common and preventable risk factor for chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) along with other risks in particular high blood pressure, tobacco use, high cholesterol, low consumption of fruit and vegetables and obesity.
According to WHR 2002, NCDs cause 60% of global deaths and 47% of burden of disease. These estimates expected to rise to 73% and 60% respectively by 2020. 66% of NCD deaths occur in developing countries. Physical inactivity is estimated to cause annually 2 million deaths worldwide. Globally it is estimated to cause about 10-16% of cases each of cases each of breast cancers, colon cancers and diabetes and about 22% of ischaemic heart disease. Estimated attributable fractions are similar in men and women.
Despite its multiple benefits, at least 60% of the world population fails to achieve the minimum recommendation of 30 minutes moderate intensity physical activity daily. More activity may be required for weight control. Physical activity declines with age, falling off from adolescence. Physical activity and physical education is declining in schools worldwide. Inactivity is generally higher among girls and women. It is also spreading in low income urban communities both in developed and developing countries.
This is in part due to the lack of physical activity in leisure time as well as in major life settings (workplace, schools, community, home); It is also the result of people spending higher amounts of time in sedentary behaviors such as watching television, using computers and excessive use of "passive" modes of transport.
Opportunities for people to be physically active exist or can be created in the major domains of everyday life such as at work, in transport, during domestic duties and in leisure time. Appropriate actions need therefore to be taken in order to ensure that the various environments - physical, social, cultural, economic, political, psychological - in which people live encourage and enable all population groups to become and remain physically active throughout life.
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So this Challenge-Ette ( a mini challenge) is to pick an activity that you normally wouldn't do - and do it - learn a new sport, learn a new activity, do something you haven't done i ages (like hula hooping, or roller skating) anything that requires movement.
Just Move!!!!
