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The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, attempted to tease out the relative dangers of inactivity and obesity.
Researchers followed 334,161 Europeans for 12 years. They assessed exercise levels and waistlines and recorded every death.
"The greatest risk [of an early death] was in those classed inactive, and that was consistent in normal weight, overweight and obese people," one of the researchers, Prof Ulf Ekelund told BBC News.
He said eliminating inactivity in Europe would cut mortality rates by nearly 7.5%, or 676,000 deaths, but eliminating obesity would cut rates by just 3.6%.
Prof Ekelund added: "But I don't think it's a case of one or the other. We should also strive to reduce obesity, but I do think physical activity needs to be recognised as a very important public health strategy."
Prof Ekelund, who is based in Norway, is into cross country skiing and clocks up at least five hours of vigorous exercise each week.
However, he says all it would need to transform health, is brisk walking.
"I think people need to consider their 24-hour day.
"Twenty minutes of physical activity, equivalent to a brisk walk, should be possible for most people to include on their way to or from work, or on lunch breaks, or in the evening instead of watching TV."
The diseases caused by inactivity and obesity were largely the same, such as cardiovascular disease. However, type 2 diabetes was more common with obesity.
Commenting on the findings, Barbara Dinsdale, from the charity Heart Research UK, said: "This study once again reinforces the importance of being physically active, even when carrying excess weight.
"Changing your lifestyle is all good news for heart health, but physical activity is always easier to achieve and maintain without carrying the extra 'body baggage' of too much weight."
Prof John Ashton, president of the Faculty of Public Health, said changes were needed to make exercise easier.
"We need substantial investment in cycling infrastructure to make our streets safer.
"If more people cycled or walked to work or school, it would make a big difference in raising levels of physical activity."
Monterey >> A suspect remains at large on Monday after breaking into a Dela Vina home early Sunday morning before fleeing when a teenager apparently scared him off.
According to Monterey police, the suspect entered the home on the 400 block of Dela Vina Avenue about 3:25 a.m. Sunday, but fled when a teenager asleep on a couch saw him and screamed.
Police reported seeing a man answering the suspect description — clean-shaven 6-foot-tall male in his 30s — and set up a perimeter on the 300 block of Dela Vina.
A yard-to-yard search of the area was conducted with Monterey County Sheriff and Seaside Police Department police dogs, according to police, but the suspect wasn’t located.
Residents are encouraged to lock doors and windows and call 911 to report any suspicious activity.
Anyone with information is asked to call Monterey police at 646-3830 or the anonymous tip line at 646-3840.
A second new cinema is being planned for The Village at Meridian. It’s part of the next phase of development at the property located at Eagle Road and Fairview Avenue.
Officials said the developments include upgrading the existing Village Cinema auditoriums with electric reclining seats, making the cinema the first in Idaho to offer them – as well as expanding the Dolby Atmos Sound system, currently found the Village Cinema’s two giant screen rooms, to more auditoriums in the complex...
The seating and sound upgrades are scheduled to begin this month and the construction of an additional luxury cinema complex will begin with the next phase of development at The Village, according to a news release.
“Our goal is to continue to provide the best movie-going experience available anywhere. In the Treasure Valley, that means providing more amenities and cinema seating due to rapid growth in the area,” said Dave Corkill, CEO of Cinema West, the cinema operator at The Village at Meridian.
The next phase of development at The Village at Meridian will potentially include more retail, dining and lodging. Renderings and detailed plans of the Phase 2 expansion at The Village will be released in coming months, officials said.
parents still live in the house I grew up in.
water on three sides. It`s very, very hilly.
midair. The same view is even better at night.
San Francisco is an incredibly, visually dramatic place.
lovely, but it`s just not the same.
visual interest on that whole drive.
hillside in Oakland, California, right in the middle of a residential area.
The other point of visual interest is this: the Grand Lake Theater.
for me when I was growing up.
amazing, huge, awesome animated sign, which you can see from everywhere.
still be the visually coolest thing about the East Bay.
theater today, of its marquee. We proudly support the "Occupy Wall Street"
movement, closed Wednesday to support the strike.
stay." You get the basic idea.
of the general strike in Oakland tonight.
working there in order to get them to treat them better as employees.
picket lines and some heated confrontations. There were people arrested.
who were striking, against the employees.
for to beat us off our own streets.
a labor dispute. They`re just supposed to enforce the law.
other businesses just walked out of their jobs.
happened spontaneously and went on 2 1/2 days.
their medicine and also bars.
which has been captured by the 1 percent.
that protest. A few dozen tents and a few hundred people in Oakland.
much support, as many people, as many energy now as "Occupy Oakland" does.
demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
the major conduits of imports from China into our country.
standing up for the 99 percent.
today, "We stand with the 99 percent," closed Wednesday, November 22nd.
But again, this is general, right? There is not a specific target.
very personal action as part of the 99 percent.
accounts jump from a norm of 7,000 per month to 16,000 in October, alone.
funds transferred from a savings account.
move their money this weekend.
financial transactions. Talk about hitting Wall Street directly.
dangerous to the health of the economy. It`s essentially a win, win, win.
transactions tax at a meeting, quote, "We are going to do this."
winner author Ron Suskind, joins us next.
rare thing in this country.
Suskind, author of "Confidence Men."
Ron, it`s great to have you back. Thanks for being here.
RON SUSKIND, AUTHOR, CONFIDENCE MEN: Nice to be here.
MADDOW: "Occupy Wall Street," the "we are the 99 percent"
something that restores confidence in a system that deep down is broken.
not going to let him do it.
the bond traders, from Wall Street, itself?
well, of course, those people don`t want the bread taken off their table.
budgets as well as American business.
MADDOW: Ron, let me ask you one slightly wider perspective question.
something that`s very true for almost all Americans.
economy? Even by means of putting Wall Street sort of back if their place.
system of banking in the United States.
growth, that slows down investment.
trouble, as I show in the book, making the tough call.
step up and swing the sword.
his entire term in office.
Washington really calling the question.
As Ron puts it, a "yes but" moment, no longer appropriate.
seriously, not kidding. That`s coming up next.
change when we pass this resolution.
It was our national motto yesterday. It`s our national motto today.
It will be our national motto tomorrow.
from our real problems to a nonexistent problem.
Jerry Nadler. Obviously, he`s some sort of communist.
defending the existence of our national motto.
were not doing anything to the motto except affirming that it exists.
And here today was the president giving them "what for" for that.
if Congress tells you they don`t have time, they`ve got time to do it.
debate? John, you`ve been debating a commemorative coin for baseball.
You had legislation reaffirming that "In God We Trust" is our motto.
see us help ourselves by putting people back to work.
and your constituents both, maybe.
building and repairing roads and bridges and the like.