Watch More TV, Die Sooner
By Carolin
The couch potato lifestyle is hitting back.
What happens to us when we turn on the TV? Our total focus turns to this attention grabbing machine and..oops 4 hours fly by.
4 hours of your precious time.
4 hours that shortens your life span A LOT.
An Australian research, that was just published, found that the more TV you watch the sooner you will die.
The people who watched TV for 4 hours a day had a 80% higher risk of dying from heart disease than the people who watched less than 2 hours.
That is statistics that you don’t want to play with.
Of course it’s not the TV that is bad. It’s the sitting still without using your muscles. The same thing goes for sitting still in an office, in the car or on a plane. There are few things that make you as passive as the TV. A plane of course but very few people travel as a passenger on a plane for 4 hours a day.
I guess I’ll have to look for exercises while sitting down.
After showing these stats to my husband, we decided to pull the plug on the cable. We’ll see what the kids have to say about that..
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I knew it! Ha, tv is a terrible thing that as you mentioned above is physically bad for us, makes us lose precious time of our lives, and completely poisons are mind, to a point where we know longer really think for ourselves. Thanks for posting this and bringing this issue to light.
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People should spend less time watching TV, and exercise more! I know many people broke their New Year’s resolution already.
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Full agree with you, Max. And still I end up infront of that damn thing.
Absolutley Kai. Thanks for the reminder on my New Years resolutions. I need to work on taking after my kids.
I choose sooner!
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sorry, i like tv
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Your’re not alone Maureen.
I like this post very much It’s very good information for the people that watch too much t.v . Keep Sharing your research and work, Thanks
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