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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>by Zoë&#0160;Pollock</em></span></p>
<p>A recent&#0160;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22450936" target="_self">study</a> suggests that even exercise&#0160;<a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/meet-the-active-couch-potato/" target="_self">won&#39;t</a>&#0160;undo the harms:</p>
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<p>[The researchers] found that the more hours the men and women sat every day, the greater their chance of dying prematurely. Those people who sat more than eight hours a day — which other studies have found is about the amount that a typical American sits — had a 15 percent greater risk of dying during the study’s three-year follow-up period than people who sat for fewer than four hours a day.&#0160;That increased risk held true in the Australian study even if the people sitting eight hours a day spent at least part of that day exercising.</p>
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