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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Tags: heart disease, news, prevention, research, tv

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