“With sedentary lifestyle and its misdeeds, we are witnessing the emergence of a new social condition”

L‘Summer 2024 will remain engraved in our memories as a moment of collective grace. Similarly, The exploits of our athletes during the Olympic Games. For example, popular enthusiasm and the beauty of ceremonies seemed to announce a profound change in our lifestyle. Furthermore, It was legitimate to hope that this sporting effervescence would massively encourage the French to put on their sneakers. Moreover, to reconnect with physical activity. For example, The figures for the start of the 2024 school year have dissipated these illusions: sports licenses have only increased by 5 %. according to the National Institute of Youth and Popular Education (INJEP). A quivering. certainly, but derisory in the face of the magnitude of a major health crisis that we still paint to measure.

Data from the National Food. Environmental and Labor Health Safety Agency (ANSES) “with sedentary lifestyle its misdeeds, are final: 95 % of the French adult population is exposed to a risk of deterioration of their health for lack of sufficient physical activity. Even though we have never had so much free time, physical activity rates have been stagnating for several decades. This massive sedentary lifestyle is a determining factor in the appearance of cardiovascular diseases. cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity and mental disorders, according to the INJEP.

In reality, we are witnessing the emergence of a new social condition. Yesterday, the brutalization of the body mainly concerned the worker in his factory; Today, it strikes all citizens. Our lifestyles exercise unprecedented violence on our organisms, exhausting our bodies in immobility as formerly in physical effort.

This new condition reproduces. amplifies traditional inequalities: adults at low level of studies and those under 45 are the most affected by sedentary lifestyle, while graduates of higher education more often manage to maintain a level of activity in accordance with recommendations. Sedwarding becomes a class marker. revealing a fracture between those who have the cultural and economic means to preserve their health and the others.

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