People today move less than ever before. The decline has been swift: In just under two generations, physical activity has fallen 20 percent in the United Kingdom and more than 30 percent in the United States, according to one report. In China, physical activity has dropped nearly 50 percent in less than one generation.
The trend is costing us in dollars and disease. According to a 2018 report in the Journal of the American Medicine Association, the lack of physical activity in the United States alone is linked to $117 billion in annual health care costs.
