Not exercising can be worse for you than smoking: study

Not exercising can be worse for you than smoking: study

October 20, 2018 | 10:30pm

Going to the gym is now a life or death scenario.

Being sedentary is worse for your health than smoking, a new study claims.

“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. We’ve never seen something as pronounced as this and as objective as this,” the study’s co-author, Dr. Wael Jaber, told CNN.

The findings stem from a study of more than 120,000 people from 1991 to 2014.

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