Six hours of television a day may reduce life expectancy by nearly five years, research shows
watch TV too much can shorten your life, a study suggests. Research conducted in Australia, and published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, showed that each hour of television seen after the age of 25 can shorten life expectancy by 22 minutes.
According to a report's authors, Dr. Lennert Veerman, School of Population Health at the University of Queensland, which makes the long hours spent in front of the box "in the same order of magnitude that smoking and obesity. "" While smoking rates are down, do not watch television, which has implications for the population, "he said.
Last year, another Australian study found an hour of TV per day led to an 8% increase in risk of premature death.
sitting too, as opposed to too little exercise, is associated with an increased risk of mortality, cardiovascular disease in particular. "Obviously, we know that physical activity is good for your health and it is not so strange that the reverse is not so good," said Veerman.
The report was based on an observational study conducted in 1999-2000 with over 11,000 participants from more than 25 years. Participants reported the amount of time spent watching television or videos of the previous week, when he was their main activity (ie, cooking or ironing at the time). The report also showed that a person who watches an average of six hours of television per day on average live 4.8 years less than someone who sees nothing.
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