Sitting is the New Smoking

Source - CNN - Atlanta Georgia (CNN) Weve all heard exercise helps you live longer. But a new study goes one step further finding that a sedentary lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking diabetes and heart disease. Dr. Wael Jaber a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic and senior author of the study called the results extremely surprising. Being unfit on a treadmill or in an exercise stress test has a worse prognosis as far as death than being hypertensive being diabetic or being a current smoker Jaber told CNN. Weve never seen something as pronounced as this and as objective as this. Read More