Lack of exercise kills roughly as many as smoking, study says

Jul 18, 2012 By Chris in Physical Activity No Comments

By Emily Alpert, Los Angeles Times
4:51 p.m. CDT, July 17, 2012

People across the world are falling so far short on exercise that the problem has become a global pandemic, causing nearly a tenth of deaths worldwide and killing roughly as many people as smoking, researchers warned this week as an alarming series of studies was published in the Lancet. Read more at the Chicago Tribune.

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