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The Independent UK
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Peony Hirwani

A 5-minute light walk every 30 minutes could save you from an early death, study says

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A five-minute, light walk every half an hour could possibly save a person from early death, according to a new study.

“Exercising daily does not alone reverse the harmful health effects of sitting,” said Keith Diaz, a certified exercise physiologist and assistant professor of behavioural medicine at the Columbia University Irving Medical Centre in New York, who helped co-author the study.

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