We have all heard that too much watching TV can lead to obesity; however, new research reveals that watching too much TV could shorten our lives!
Research from Australia says that every hour of TV will knock 22 minutes off our lives! The research also revealed that people who averaged six hours a day of TV lived nearly five years less, on average, than people who watched no TV!
Researchers also said that statistics suggest that too much TV may be as dangerous as smoking and lack of exercise in reducing life expectancy!
For example, smoking can shorten of life expectancy by more than four years after the age of 50. That represents 11 minutes of life lost for every cigarette and that’s the same as half an hour of TV watching, the researchers said.
Of course it’s the old “correlation is not causation” argument: the study did not show that TV watching caused people to die sooner, only that there was an association between watching lots of TV and a shorter lifespan.
There could be a number of reasons for this association. Watching TV, people are inactive, they eat mindlessly (over-eating and the junky sort of TV dinners) and so gain weight.
Without TV, researchers estimated life expectancy for men would be 1.8 years longer and for women, 1.5 years longer.
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Source: http://www.healthiertalk.com
