The World Health Organisation on Wednesday launched strategies aimed at getting Europeans to start moving and stop smoking over the next decade to defuse what it termed the ticking time-bomb of sedentary lifestyles. “Health systems across the region (Europe) risk being crippled by people suffering the effects of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour,” Doctor Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe, said in a Wednesday statement issued at talks in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. “Rates of overweight and obesity are rising dramatically” in 46 of the 53 countries in its European region, the WHO noted in the same statement.