People need to stop saying "[x] is the new smoking" Smoking is a specific risk factor that BY ITSELF increases your risk of cancer/death by 3000%+ Unless the risk you're talking about is comparable, it's not the "new smoking"
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The things that are comparable with smoking are mostly old hat. Asbestos. Seat belts. Leaded petrol Most of the other truly gobsmacking environmental risks are known and controlled (at least in wealthy areas)
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Most modern issues - like obesity - are made up of numerous risk factors that are themselves comprised of hundreds of different behaviours If you can stop someone smoking, you drop their risk of death enormously. This is not true of sitting
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To be like smoking, a risk has to be both a) very high b) EASILY PREVENTABLE If you can't reduce the risk with a single behavioural change, it's not much like smoking at all
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The "sitting is the new smoking" thing irks me the most. Mostly because its led people to think standing still for 8 hours straight is any better.
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Definitely. The idea that you can fix a problem caused by a sedentary lifestyle by making that sedentary lifestyle slightly more upright is just ridiculous
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Do you have evidence for the fast food bit of this statement. we published a couple of papers on fast food and I'm interested in evidence that it has any negative impacts. Our work suggests its impact is very small. I'm not saying you are wrong just interested to see the data.
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