inactivity
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Researchers examined 12 modifiable dementia risk factors identified by the Lancet Commission on dementia, including hearing loss, depression, physical inactivity, and social isolation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
In 2010 research, Julianne Holt-Lunstad and her co-authors pooled evidence from 148 studies and found that weak social relationships predict mortality at a magnitude comparable to smoking and greater than obesity or physical inactivity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
That has kept the top rates just under 4% for several months — not out of inactivity, but because the push-pull keeps a swing from happening in either direction.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
The government spends 25 times as much on benefits for young people than it does on supporting them into work, the author of a major review into youth inactivity has said.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
After about a month of “laying dead,” as inactivity was called, I knew I had to get some kind of hustle going.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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