Posted on 01/11/2010 6:15:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Lounging in front of the tube not only eats up hours in your day, it may also shorten your life, according to a new study.
The study, which looked at the connection between watching TV and death for 8,800 Australian adults, found that each hour of TV-viewing was associated with an 11 percent increased risk of death from any cause, and an 18 percent increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease. These findings held true even after the researchers took into account other factors that could raise the risk of dying, such as age, gender, waist circumference and exercise habits.
While the study included only Australians, the findings likely apply to Americans, who spend even more time watching TV, the researchers said. The results could also apply to any sedentary activity - yes including sitting in front of a computer all day - not just TV-watching. And skinny people could be victims as well, the researchers say.
The researchers suggest this link between TV-time and early death could be partly due to the fact that sitting in front of the tube may take away from time a person might otherwise spend moving about, engaging in light activity, which has been shown to reduce the risk of developing certain biological indicators of cardiovascular disease. ..
The results also showed that those who watched TV for four hours a day or more had a 46 percent increased risk of death from any cause and an 80 percent increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease, compared with those who watched TV less than two hours a day. This connection was found to be independent of other risk factors for death and cardiovascular disease, including smoking, high cholesterol, poor diet, high blood pressure and a large waistline.
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There’s no time for us
There’s no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams yet slips away from us
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever....?
There’s no chance for us
It’s all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever?
Who dares to love forever?
When love must die
But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today
Who wants to live forever
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Who waits forever anyway?
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Die Anyway.
In the 18th century nobody watched TV, but everyone born in the 18th century is now dead. That’s a death rate of 100%. During the last 65 years, despite the increasing prevalence of TV-watching, the death rate has never increased beyond 100%.
We are not supposed to ask. It proves we can think. That’s frowned upon.
Exactly. An inclination to spend many hours lounging in front of the TV may well be a symptom of underlying problems (e.g. depression) that are more directly causative of earlier death, and would be even if the person never watched TV at all.
See the third paragraph. :)
It’s all in how ya look at stats, I reckun. Good point. ;-)
My brothers father-in-law has been a lazy, non-working couch bum nearly all of his life—literally. And yet he is pushing 90. Personally I would rather be productive and check out earlier IMHO.
Sounds like your good to go to a ripe age. -)
Very True. Case in point: couched by case of late stage Lyme.
That’s what happens when you skim an article. Thanks.
Ooh ... that bug is a sonofagun. I hope you are getting good treatment and responding well.
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