Getting the World Moving

The GCC is all about getting your workforce active, healthy and more productive. Lost productivity and absenteeism costs organisations worldwide billions every week.

Globally 285 million people have type II diabetes and this figure is expected to rise to 435 million in 20 years.*

Physical inactivity is an "actual" cause of many chronic diseases and an estimated 13% of all deaths in the US are premature due to physical inactivity.**

Globally there are more than 1 billion overweight adults, with at least 300 million of them being obese.***

The burden of chronic disease equally shared between hypertension (extremely high blood pressure), Type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) affects the lives of many people across the globe each year.****

For Example

In Australia alone about 50,000 deaths are attributed to heart disease, one third of the population has high blood pressure and nearly half the population has elevated cholesterol.

In the UK, there are 270,000 heart attacks each year, CVD is the major cause of death accounting for 245,000 deaths and the annual cost is £1,750 million.

In the USA in 2001, CVD claimed nearly one million lives, and responsible for over six million hospital discharges, at an annual cost to the economy of $US368.4 billion.

* According to a 2009 report by the International Diabetes Federation.
** Chakravarthy MV, Booth FW. Hot Topics: Exercise. Philadelphia, PA. Hanley and Belfis (Elsevier), 2003.
*** World Health Organisation, 2003, Obesity & Overweight Fact Sheet.
**** The 2006 Centre for Heart Disease & Diabetes Prevention Research, December, 2006

The benefits of activity

Physical activity has the potential to reduce the risk of chronic diseases.

There is no known single intervention with greater promise than physical exercise to reduce the risk of virtually all chronic diseases simultaneously.*


Women who exercise for at least 3 hours a week cut their risk of coronary heart disease by 30-40%.**

A study of 21,000 men found that men that who exercised to sweat on at least one occasion a week were 24% less likely to develop Type II diabetes, while men who exercised 2-4 times per week reduce their risk even further to 39%.


* Dr Frank W. Booth – 'Waging war on modern chronic diseases: primary prevention through exercise biology'
** The 2006 Heart & Diabetes Research Institute

There is a killer amongst us

You've seen the facts, you've read the evidence, and you know the benefits. Still need convincing?

Watch this video and discover the silent killer, stalking us all.