3 ways your commute to work may be slowly killing you
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There's a lot to dislike about commuting to work: traffic, crowded trains, moody passengers, delayed buses. But there's another, more serious reason you should dread your daily commute - it might be slowly worsening your health, and in some severe cases, even increasing your risk of premature death.
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DNAInfo's Nicole Levy reports that "the toll our daily commute takes on us has long-term implications on our mental and physical health."
She looked at research conducted by people like Richard Wener, a professor of environmental psychology at New York University and a longtime commuter, to find out how our daily commutes are affecting our health. In her article, she highlights seven insidious ways it's harming us. Here are three of them:
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