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Physical Inactivity as Damaging to Health as Smoking

Physical inactivity has a negative global impact so severe that its adverse effects on health are comparable to that of smoking or obesity, according to a new study. What’s more, the researchers say the problem of inactivity is so bad that it should be considered a pandemic. The study is just one in a special series of reports in the journal Lancet, timed — in an ironic twist — to coincide with the Olympics.