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FILE PHOTO: A man exercises early in the morning along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, India, December 21, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Adding an extra 15 minutes of daily walking, or jogging a steady one kilometer each day, would improve productivity and extend life expectancy - leading to more economic growth, the study by the health insurance group Vitality and the think tank RAND Europe found. Hans Pung, RAND Europe’s president, said the study highlighted “a significant relationship between inactivity and productivity loss” and should give policymakers and employers “new perspectives on how to enhance the productivity of their populations”.
The RAND/Vitality study was based in part on data from about 120,000 people across seven countries. It then modeled and projected the potential economic benefits of increased physical activity globally and for 23 individual countries.
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