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Couch potato lifestyle may speed up ageing

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 31 January, 2008 to the comment subset

Couch potato lifestyle may speed up ageing

You might like to think twice before settling down (yet again) in front of the TV for a relaxing night in.

Being a couch potato in your free time could make you a decade older biologically than someone who is physically active, according to a major study of people’s “chromosomal clocks”.

It’s not necessarily watching TV that can see you age before your years, but any prolonged period of physical inactivity. Office work, blogging, anyone?

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