Sitting all day may increase your risk of dying from cancer
Gretchen Reynolds, The New York Times
Posted at Jun 26 09:10 AM
Sitting for hours on end could heighten someone’s risk of later dying from cancer, according to a sobering new study of the relationship between inactivity and cancer mortality. The study was epidemiological, providing a snapshot of people’s lives, so it cannot prove cause and effect. But the findings suggest that extremely sedentary people can be as much as 80 percent more likely to die of cancer than those who sit the least.
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