Lack Of Exercise Causes 2X As Many Deaths As Obesity

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 19:10 in Health & Medicine

For most people, they can extend their healthy lifespan by walking for 20 minutes a day. Yet most people don't do it.It's become a popular sport to criticize obese people while lamenting that our pop culture encourages people to be too thin. We should be criticizing people who don't go for walks rather than fat people if we care about lowering health care costs, according to a study of over 334,000 European men and women which found that twice as many deaths may be attributable to lack of physical activity compared with the number of deaths attributable to obesity. read more

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