I get a kick out of these articles that talk of "risk of death". Isn’t the risk of death always 100% for all of us? How can an activity possibly increase our risk of death? It’s absurd language, and yet it appears daily in our media.
Experts: Sitting too much could be deadly – Yahoo! News
…Research is preliminary, but several studies suggest people who spend most of their days sitting are more likely to be fat, have a heart attack or even die….
…Still, in a study published last year that tracked more than 17,000 Canadians for about a dozen years, researchers found people who sat more had a higher death risk, independently of whether or not they exercised….
