A study found that If adults walked 15 more minutes a day, it could increase world economic output
File: Adding an extra 15 minutes of daily walking, or jogging a steady one kilometre each day, would improve productivity and extend life expectancy.LONDON - The world economy could be boosted by as much as $100-billion a year if employers successfully encouraged their staff to meet World Health Organization guidelines on exercise.
The economic boost would come from lower mortality rates -- in other words keeping more people alive, working and contributing to the economy for longer, the study's authors said, and from employees taking fewer days off sick. The WHO recommends that all adults should take at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise, or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise, a week. In a study last year it found that around 40 percent of adults in the United States, 36 percent in Britain and 14 percent in China did too little exercise to stay healthy.
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