Thursday, October 15, 2009

The man who invented exercise

The man who invented exercise

By Simon Kuper

Published: September 11 2009 16:24 | Last updated: September 12 2009 03:43

Jerry Morris

In the early years after the second world war, health researchers in Britain noticed a curious epidemic: people had begun dying of heart attacks in unprecedented numbers. Nobody knew why, and so a scientist in London named Jerry Morris set up a vast study to examine the heart-attack rates in people of different occupations – schoolteachers, postmen, transport workers and more.

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