For decades, research has been highlighting the positive impact of physical activity on health. Despite the immense efforts made by many professional and scientific organizations to raise individual and societal awareness about the role of a sufficient quantity and intensity of physical activity in everyday life and to increase the level of adherence, the situation is still very worrying. Even more worrying is the fact that increasingly prolonged periods of physical inactivity are insidiously and aggressively taking over modern people's lives - at school, at work, at home, even at leisure. It is probably incomprehensible and difficult for many to accept, but physical inactivity is becoming the first and worst enemy of health in today's society.
Raziskave že več destletij izpostavljajo pozitiven vpliv gibalne aktivnosti na zdravje. Kljub neizmernemu prizadevanju številnih strokovnih in znanstvenih organizacij v zadnjih desetletjih, da bi posamezniku in družbi ozavestili vlogo o pomenu ustrezne količine in intenzivnosti gibalne aktivnosti v vsakdanu človeka ter dvignila stopnjo adherence, je stanje še vedno zelo zaskrbljujoče. Še bolj pa nas mora skrbeti dejstvo, da vse daljša obdobja gibalne neaktivnosti prikrito in agresivno prevzemajo življenje sodobnega človeka – v šoli, na delovnem mestu, v prostem času, doma. Za marsikoga verjetno nerazumljivo in težko sprejemljivo, pa vendar se gibalna neaktivnost spreminja v prvega in najhujšega sovražnika zdravja v današnji družbi.
Keywords: contemporary society; health; physical inactivity; sedentary behaviour.
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