Our sedentary lifestyles are simply deadly
Health Secretary Matt Hancock knows that if his time in the job is to be judged a success, he will have to tackle one of the biggest killers in Britain - and that won't happen by handing out more pills. . We are 20 per cent less active than in the 1960s and this makes it more likely that we will suffer heart disease, strokes, some cancers and Type 2 diabetes.Rather than worry about the future we can decide to change the way we live today.
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