Sedentary behavior refers to excessive sitting or lying, resulting in little or no energy expenditure (Ainsworth et al., 2000). Recently, it has been argued that prolonged sedentary behavior, combined with a lack of physical activity through exercise, is a factor in adverse public health outcomes such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and the increase in mortality. (Chau et al., 2013; Owen et al. 2008; Owen et al. 2010; Uffelenet et al., 2013). In Australia, sedentary lifestyle is the fourth highest risk factor in reducing productivity and 56% of Australian adults are inactive which exceeds 9.5 million (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013). Similarly, 36% of adults were severely sedentary and the physical activity level of 60% of people did not meet the government-recommended 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per day. It can be said that the cost of physical inactivity is $13.8 billion per year to the Australian economy due to the combined result of lost productivity, health costs and premature mortality (Australian Government Department of Health)....
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