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Men's Fitness, Sept, 2001
BEING FAT and out of shape, heretofore known as "lazy sack-o'-potatoes disorder," now has a more appropriate title--sedentary death syndrome.
Frank W. Booth, a professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia, says he invented the term, which he shortens to SeDS, to make the federal government pay more attention to getting the public to be more active.
"We knew that there were approximately 250,000 people in the United States each year who were dying of inactivity-related diseases," Booth says. But the phrase "inactivity-related disease" lacked pizzazz. Without a catchy name, the condition wasn't getting enough notice.
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Researchers Against SeDS, the organization that Booth founded, is calling for an increase in federal support for research. According to Booth, estimates are that 750,000 Americans a year die of heart disease, diabetes and colon cancer, and research has concluded that one-third of those deaths could be prevented by physical activity.
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