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Only economy class goes Colombo

Mr Umar was invited for meeting in Colombo, Sri lanka. He has an economy class ticket. He checked in and got on board the aircraft. When cabin crew in the economy class did a head count, she noticed one checked in  passenger is missing. The cabin crew in business class tells she has an extra person. They found out that Umar was sitting in business class.

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Is Sitting Too Long a Major Cancer Risk?

Study Shows Inactivity and Excess Sitting Linked to an Estimated 100,000 Cancer Cases a Year

By Kathleen Doheny
WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Nov. 3, 2011 -- Here's a new risk for cancer a lot of us can relate to -- simply sitting too long.
"It seems highly likely that the longer you sit, the higher your risk," Neville Owen, PhD, of Australia's Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, says in a news release.
Owen presented the research at a news conference today at the American Institute for Cancer Research annual conference in Washington, D.C.
Regular exercise has long been linked with reducing the risk of certain cancers.
Now, experts say they have a better strategy. Get regular exercise and avoid prolonged periods of sitting.
Higher activity could prevent nearly 100,000 cases of breast and colon cancer in the U.S. each year, says Christine Friedenreich, PhD, research scientist and epidemiologist at Alberta Health Services in Canada. "These are just estimates," she tells WebMD.

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