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You’ve got to move it, move it

In a chicken and egg sense, we may have been looking at exercise the wrong way.

New studies suggest that perhaps we don’t move enough because we’re too heavy, and once we’re lighter, we suddenly feel like it. A reputable study reported in Dr Michael Greger’s How Not to Diet has found, albeit for reasons still not well understood, that once they lose a certain amount of weight, people are more likely to become more active, to the point of taking deliberate exercise.

Exercise has had a

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