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Does prolonged sitting really kill 70,000 people a year in the UK?

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'Is sitting REALLY the new smoking? Alarming new research claims 70,000 deaths a year are caused by our increasingly sedentary lives' reports the Mail Online

'Is sitting REALLY the new smoking? Alarming new research claims 70,000 deaths a year are caused by our increasingly sedentary lives' reports the Mail Online

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