We all know that a healthy life means     1     (get) both plenty of exercise and enough good-quality sleep,     2     reality often gets in the way. The new research indicates that doing enough exercise could make up     3     some of the unhealthy impacts of terrible sleep.

Cancer, for example, those at the unhealthiest end of the sleep and exercise scale had a 45 percent higher risk of dying from cancer    4     those with good sleep and doing exercise     5     (regular). However, that risk just about disappeared for those     6     didn’t have good sleep but kept regular physical activity.

The weekly amount of exercise     7     (recommend) by the World Health Organization (WHO) is 150 minutes of moderately intensive activity, or more than 75 minutes of vigorously intensive physical activity.

“Levels of physical     8     (active) at or above the lower threshold recommended by WHO appeared to cut out most of the associations of poor sleep and mortality,” write the researchers in their paper.

“Considering that physical activity     9     (be) perhaps more achievable than sleep, the study offers people more health     10     (reason) to be physically active; and provides health professionals with more reasons to recommend physical activity to patients with sleep problems.”