Bottom line: "how do we encourage a behaviour that should be part of everyday life?" Read the Lancet's series on Physical Activity

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)61024-1/fulltext


Rethinking our approach to physical activity

Pamela Das, Richard Horton

"But how do we encourage a behaviour that should be part of everyday life? For too long the focus has been on advising individuals to take an active approach to life. There has been far too little consideration of the social and physical environments that enable such activity to be taken. Regular activity must, of course, be done by the individual but, as this Series shows, efforts beyond the health sector through social and environmental change will be necessary if we are to see greater uptake of this healthier behaviour in people's lives."