Sinai Hospital, and in the International Journal of Epidemiology a year before.

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And earlier this year the evidence against many hours of sitting expanded further: The American Journal of Epidemiology published a study finding that those who work a sedentary job have almost twice the risk of a specific type of colon cancer.

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According to research published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, there would be 14, 000 fewer deaths from cancer in those aged over 75 per year if if mortality rates from cancer matched those in America.

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