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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

What is most likely to kill you?

What is more dangerous to you?

Murder?

Smoking?

Something else?

What is your answer?

In fact, murder kills about 15,000 people every year in the US. Smoking more than 430,000!

Yet, the latter is legal. It is one of those "excluded harms" are far more dangerous than crime.

Turns out another legal behavior is also very dangerous. And props to media organizations such as CNN for pointing it out.

What is it? Not moving!

Physical inactivity as deadly as smoking

Now, one in every 10 deaths worldwide is caused by just sitting on your butt too much.

Researchers say physical inactivity has become a global pandemic.
Researchers say physical inactivity has become a global pandemic.

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