We've all heard exercise helps you live longer. But a new study goes one step further, finding that a sedentary(久坐不动的) lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking and heart disease.

Dr. Wael Jaber, a doctor at the Cleveland Clinic and senior author of the study, called the results "extremely surprising."

"Being unfit in an exercise stress test has a worse prognosis(预后), as far as death, than being a smoker," Jaber told CNN. "We've never seen something as noticeable as this and as objective as this."

"It should be treated almost as a disease that has a prescription, which is called exercise," he said.

Researchers studied 122,007 patients who took exercise stress tests at Cleveland Clinic between January 1, 1991 and December 31, 2020 to measure death rate relating to the benefits of exercise and fitness. Comparing those with a sedentary lifestyle to the top exercise performers, he said, the risk associated with death is "500% higher."

What made the study so unique, beyond the number of people studied, he said was that researchers weren't relying on patients self-reporting their exercise. "This is not the patients telling us what they do," Jaber said. "This is our testing them and figuring out objectively the real measure of what they do."

Researchers have always been concerned that "ultra(高强度的)" exercisers might be at a higher risk of death, but the study found that not to be the case.

The benefits of exercise were seen across all ages and in both men and women, "probably a little more noticeable in females," Jaber said. "Whether you're in your 40s or your 80s, you will benefit in the same way."

      Mary will never forget the first time she saw him. He suddenly appeared in the class one day, (wear)sun glasses. He walked in as if he (buy) the school. And the word quickly got around that he was from New York City.

      For some reason he sat beside Mary. Mary felt (please), because there were manyempty seats in the room. But she quickly realized that it wasn’t her, it wasprobably the fact that she sat in last row.

he thought hecould escape attention by sitting at the back, he was wrong. It might have madeit a little (hard) foreverybody because it meant they had to turn around, but that didn’t stop thekids in the class. Of course whenever they turned to look at him, they had tolook at Mary, made her feel like a star.

      “Do you need those glasses for medical reasons?” the teacher asked. The new boy (shake) his head. “Then I’d appreciate  if you didn’t wear them in the class. I liketo look your eyes when I’m speaking to you.” The new boy looked at the teacherfor a few seconds and all the other students wondered  the boy would do. Then he took them off, gavea big smile and said, “That is cool.”

    Welcome to the Best Music Drama of the Last Ten Years

    Are you fond of the music drama? As the winner of the Tony Awards "Triple Crown" for the best music drama, the best score and the best book, Avenue Q is packed with heart.

    Following five years in the West End, with sell-out runs worldwide and a hit tour in 2014, this hugely entertaining show is hitting the road again!

    Created by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez (co-creator of Book of Modern and writer of the songs for Disney's Frozen)Avenue Q is a charming music drama which tells the story of the lovable characters on a downtown New York street trying to make sense of life's burning issues.

    Dates & times 30th September-October 31st

    Monday-Thursday 7: 45 pm

    Friday 5:30 pm & 10:00 pm

    Saturday 4: 00 pm & 7: 45 pm

    Ticket Pieces & discounts

    Tickets by phone: ￡10.00 for the morning/￡20. 00 for the afternoon

    Discounts online: 10% off

    ( Every ticket has an additional￡3.00 booking fee）

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In order to observe Tibetan antelopes, we are here on the Tibet plain. We can see snow-covered mountains  (appear) into clouds which seem almost close enough to touch. In front of us, we can just make out a herd of Tibetan antelopes, moving  (slow) across the green grass. Though struck by their  (beautiful), I'm also reminded of the danger they are in. They  (hunt), illegally, for their valuable fur.

Between the 1980s and 1990s, the population of Tibetan antelopes dropped  more than 50 percent. Hunters were shooting antelopes  (make) profits. Their habitats were becoming smaller as new roads and railways were built.

In order to save this species from  (extinct), measure were taken to protect them, which proved to be very  (effect). In June 2015, Tibetan antelope was removed from the endangered list.

Looking at the stars in the evening, I think about the antelopes and  Zhaxi told me. Much is being done to protect wildlife, but if we really want to save the planet, we must change our way of life. Only when we learn to exist in harmony with nature can we stop being  threat to wildlife and to our planet.

                                                                     The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place

    Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically.

    Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale(秤)instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.

    On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don't have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.

    The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients. Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemicals that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.

    Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological and physical harm that comes from using them.

    After a decade at the publishing company, I was fired. I had worked so hard for so long. I was always doing my job 1 , clawing my way up the ladder. And 2 ? Doing these things had 3 me in the end, very little of lasting value. I wondered what would happen if I let it all go—didn't look for a job, didn't keep my 4 ambition.

    My husband thought it was a great idea. “Just 5 .” he said. As a serious windsurfer, he suggested I try the sport as a path to clarity. I had windsurfed before , but only in 6 water. I didn't like high winds. I didn't like going fast—that was 7. But I wanted to abandon the past. My 8 was to do nothing but read and windsurf every day. I wanted to feel the fear and do it anyway. I wanted to learn how to ride the currents, and I couldn't think of a better way than to 9 myself to the invisible, ever-shifting wind.

    I decided to sail at Swell City, a favorite outpost on the Washington side of the Columbia. That July 10 to be one of the windiest months on record. I grew to find that what I was doing did 11 for my standing in the world. It won me no friends.Then again, I was 12 .

    One day, a friend and her l5-year-old son came, and after I explained my 13 , he said the simplest but most profound thing: “It's all in the 14 . ” This kid had windsurfed only three times , 15 he knew the secret. “If you go out there knowing you're going to 16 it, you will, ”he continued. “But if you go out there afraid you'll get hurt , you will. ” I smiled at him. Wasn't that 17 the same problem I'd encountered in life? I'd always been terrified l wouldn't reach the goal or 18 the job. I knew I had to let that fear go. And slowly I did.

    The wind wanted nothing from me. It cared not at all about my ambition or accomplishments. It 19 me that the beauty of life is in the trying. And that's where I am: still trying for the turnaround in life and in the 20 .

Located at Yangjiaping of the Jiulongpo District of Chongqing, Chongqing Zoo is 8 km from the city center. It (build) in 1953 and officially opened to the public in 1955. It is not only an (attract) place for animals visiting, but also an important base for the (protect) and research of the immigrant wild animals.

There are wild animals, birds and fishes (live) in the visiting areas. (obvious), the Panda House is most visited. The special design of gardens (provide) the natural environment for the pandas. And is very likely that you see some rare animals like South China tiger, golden cat and clouded leopard in the park.

There is also amusement park in the Chongqing Zoo, with some joyful (item) like carousel and mini­train riding. Next to the amusement park is a science classroom, children can read animal science books for free.