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Sikh boy jokes about relevant provisions," said public pros- Too much sitting equates to more than
bomb in bag, held in US ecutor Aromal Unni. seven hours a day and too little exer-
cise is defined as less than 150 minutes
Texas police recently detained a 12- Sources said that John, then a postman a week. "This is the first study to look
year-old Sikh boy for three days with- for six years, had assigned a colleague at how those things (sleep and sitting)
out informing his parents after he had to deliver letters to places under his might act together," said lead author
joked in class that he was carrying a jurisdiction without the postmaster's Dr. Melody Ding.
bomb in his backpack. Armaan Singh, permission. As the designated person
who has had three cardiac surgeries, was unfamiliar with the area, he When you add a lack of exercise into
was later found by his family in a juve- couldn't deliver all of them. The unde- the mix, you get a type of "triple
nile detention centre along with teen- livered mail was then handed over to whammy" effect. "Our study shows
agers accused of serious crimes such as the postmaster. that we should really be taking these
drug possession and theft. behaviours together as seriously as we
When the postmaster summoned John do other risk factors such as levels of
Tearing up of a letter an- in this regard, he lost his temper and drinking and unhealthy eating pat-
grily lands a postman in tore one of the letters in his presence. terns," Dr Ding added.
jail for 2 years Following this, an FIR was lodged
against the postman. The team found another problematic
In the incident that had occurred in triple threat: smoking, high alcohol in-
2009, Samuel John,a postman - after a Sleeping nine hours may take and lack of sleep (less than seven
tiff with the postmaster of the kill you early hours a night) is also linked to a more
Tripunithara post office in Ernakulam dis- than four-times greater risk of early
trict - had torn a letter meant for deliv- Sleeping more than nine hours and sit- death.
ery before storming out of the office. ting too much during the day -- along
with a lazy lifestyle -- can send you to World's oldest couple cel-
Stating that John doesn't deserve any an early grave, warn researchers. ebrates 90th anniversary
sympathy, the Chief Judicial Magis- in UK
trate of Ernakulam Shiju Sheikh sen- According to the findings from non-
tenced him to two years' rigorous im- profit organisation Sax Institute's "45 An Indian-origin husband and wife,
prisonment under the Indian Post Of- and Up Study", a person who sleeps believed to be the world's oldest
fices Act. "He was found guilty of of- too much, sits too much and is not couple, have celebrated their 90th
fences registered under the Act. The physically active enough is more than anniversary in the UK. Karam, 110 and
court said that since he had commit- four times as likely to die early as a Kartari Chand, 103, have eight chidern,
ted a serious offence, he deserved person without those unhealthy 27 grandchildren and 23 great-grand-
maximum punishment under all the lifestyle habits. children.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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