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Tuesday 23 Dec 2014 - 11:55 Makkah mean time-1-3-1436 London (IINA) - Scientists believe that an increasingly sedentary lifestyle is making people’s bones more fragile, Daily Express newspaper reported quoting a study.
They noted that human bone's weight and strength began to decline after farming was introduced.
The study, which was published in the journal PNAS, shows that preagricultural hunter-gatherers living 7,000 years ago had bones as strong as orangutans.
Farmers who replaced them had easier lives but had around 20 percent lower bone mass, making them more at risk of fractures. Modern humans exercise even less and so bones are becoming weaker.
Study co-author Dr Colin Shaw of Cambridge University warned: "We are now dangerously sedentary; Sitting in a car or at a desk is not what we evolved to do."
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