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Inactivity Killing More Than Smoking

Physical inactivity becoming global pandemic: Study

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 18, 2012 4:00 AM CDT | Updated Jul 21, 2012 12:59 PM CDT

(Newser) – The people of the world need to get off their butts, scientists have concluded after an extensive review of global mortality statistics, which revealed that physical inactivity is killing more people than smoking. Researchers, declaring inactivity to be a pandemic, estimate that out of the...   Read full story »

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