But most every study agrees that sitting for extended periods of time will lead us down a road of poor health and early death.
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This technique follows Havel from his bourgeois youth to his early playwriting days, his prison sentence to his presidency, and, finally, to his current state of poor health and impending death.
And 50 countries around the world still report annual outbreaks of cholera to the WHO, a bacterial infection spread via poor sanitation that causes death by dehydration if not treated soon enough.
They began to attack in waves, with Elissalde ruining one incisive attack with a poor kick at the death which Marcus Horan was able to touch down for a 22 with no French attacker within five metres of him.
The report also considered the health of the borough as a whole and found Walsall had several factors influencing high death rates, including poor life expectancy, high levels of deprivation, sexually transmitted infections and smoking, and historically low education levels.
Some rats received a mild shock which was not much more than a tickle, others were subjected to a shock of an intermediate level, while the third group was nearly fried to death each time the poor suckers merely sniffed at the black passage.
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Human-rights activists oppose the death penalty too, describing it as punishment only for the poor and powerless (who they claim comprise 90% of the 764 convicts on death row).
Any attempt to fully insure children and the poor is met with dire warnings of death panels and creeping socialism.
As with the story of the poor little puppy dog being stoned to death by a religious court in Israel.
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Lady Thatcher resigned as prime minister in 1990 and had been in poor health for several years prior to her death.
Father Auth says the issue is important to these voters, but he says that they also look at what he calls broader life issues, such as the war, the death penalty and services for the poor.
Schumer (D-NY) urged the device's maker, Apple, on Thursday to provide fresh answers about the source of the so-called "death grip" glitch that causes poor reception, and called for a fix to be identified and provided free of charge to existing customers.
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More broadly, dirty water and air, and poor sanitation, are the biggest preventable causes of death.
Murder in punishable by death in Papua New Guinea, a poor tribal nation of 7 million people who are mostly subsistence farmers.
Musharraf rebuffed those claims and has implied her death was in part due to her own poor judgment.
And in 1732 he inaugurated his famous Poor Richard's Almanack with a hoax predicting the death of rival almanac publisher Titan Leeds.
All were arrested on initial charges, which include causing death and criminal conspiracy as they knowingly allowed poor-quality work, said Mr. Ballal, who didn't provide further details.
In other words, the uncharismatic Maduro tries to make believe that Chavez is still alive while Chavez himself receives a status similar to Jesus whose death symbolizes the redemption of humanity and the poor, in particular.
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Academic studies show that the poor suffer worse health outcomes as a result, including premature death.
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Kim Jong-il, thought to be in poor health, came to power in 1994, following the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
Service Corp. blamed its poor earnings in part on a lower-than-expected death rate, for example (see box), although Stewart executives note that it's the number of deaths, not the rate, that drives funeral sales-and deaths in the U.S. were up 1% last year.
Qatar and other Gulf states have long been criticised by international labour and human rights organisation for the poor treatment of migrant workers who suffer from low wages, high death rates on construction sites and substandard living conditions.
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Lack of exercise and poor diet are poised to replace smoking as a leading cause of death in the United States, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control presented by Tommy Thompson, director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The poor quality of life for heart-failure patients, leading up to death, can also be devastating, he says.
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As many noted after the death of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela may have lifted up its poor through oil subsidies, but it is one of the most violent countries in Latin America and has one of the highest inflation rates in the world.
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"Poor hand hygiene" by hospital staff may have been to blame for the death of a baby who contracted a fatal infection, an inquest has heard.
And particularly on this night, when we're honoring the legacy of Dr. King, central to his work was the idea of fighting for real equality between the races, fighting to end poverty in America, his famous Poor People's Campaign, which he was engaged in at the time of his death, fighting for garbage workers, actually, in Memphis.
Poor children without dental care often suffer long-term health issues, school absences and even death.
"Scotland's poor health profile within Europe is well-known, but trends over time vary for different causes of death, " he said.
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The death penalty, and the criminal justice and penal system in this country are weighted heavily against the poor and against minorities.
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