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03968aam a2200337 i 4500 001 A4B1C03AB93011EB912C4BE73FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210520010008 008 200430s2021 enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1471192520 020 $a 9781471192524 020 $a 1471192539 020 $a 9781471192531 035 $a (OCoLC)1152716892 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d ATNSH $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d AUPTL $d NZAUC $d NZLPP $d OCLCO $d AUPTL $d JIU $d SILO 100 1 $a Walker, Peter. 245 14 $a The miracle pill : $b why a sedentary world is getting it all wrong / $c Peter Walker. 264 1 $a London, England : $b Simon & Schuster, $c 2021. 300 $a 312 pages ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a What is the 'miracle pill', the simple lifestyle change with such enormous health benefits that, if it was turned into a drug, would be the most valuable drug in the world? The answer is movement and the good news is that it's free, easy and available to everyone. Four in ten British adults, and 80% of children, are so sedentary they don't meet even the minimum recommended levels for movement. What's going on? The answer is simple: activity became exercise. What for centuries was universal and everyday has become the fetishised pursuit of a minority, whether the superhuman feats of elite athletes, or a chore slotted into busy schedules. Yes, most people know physical activity is good for us. And yet 1.5 billion people around the world are so inactive they are at greater risk of everything from heart disease to diabetes, cancer, arthritis and depression, even dementia. Sedentary living now kills more people than obesity, despite receiving much less attention, and is causing a pandemic of chronic ill health many experts predict could soon bankrupt the NHS. How did we get here? Daily, constant exertion was an integral part of humanity for millennia, but in just a few decades movement was virtually designed out of people's lives through transformed workplaces, the dominance of the car, and a built environment which encourages people to be static. In a world now also infiltrated by ubiquitous screens, app-summoned taxis and shopping delivered to your door, it can be shocking to realise exactly how sedentary many of us are. A recent study found almost half of middle-aged English people don't walk continuously for ten minutes or more in an average month. At current trends, scientists forecast, the average US adult will expend little more energy in an average week than someone who spent all their time in bed. This book is a chronicle of this very modern and largely unexplored catastrophe, and the story of the people trying to turn it around. Through interviews with experts in various fields - doctors, scientists, architects and politicians - Peter Walker explores how to bring more movement into the modern world and, most importantly, into your life. Forget the gym, introducing quick and easy lifestyle changes can slow down the ageing process and even reverse many illnesses and increase mental wellbeing. 505 0 $a Introduction: a world transformed -- The long decline of everyday movement -- The miracle pill: small does have big impacts -- The man who rediscovered movement -- The tidal wave: how inactivity is bankrupting governments -- Towns and cities on a human scale -- Being slim isn't enough: why inactivity and obesity are different -- Your everyday life is dangerous -- Youth, age, and why activity matters lifelong -- The power of social engineering -- So what now? A new era of health. 650 0 $a Health. 650 0 $a Exercise $x Physiological aspects. 650 0 $a Sedentary behavior $x Health aspects. 655 7 $a Self-help publications. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023502.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20210520010310.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A4B1C03AB93011EB912C4BE73FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search