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What health risks are commonly associated with a sedentary lifestyle?
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Lifestyle: Your sedentary lifestyle could contribute to you aging faster, having less energy and you are likely to be a candidate for various illnesses that exercise could prevent. My best.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Obesity.: A sedentary lifestyle mainly causes an unhealthy increase in body weight, which can then lead to diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, muscular weakness, osteoarthritis,
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