Couch potatoes riddled with heart disease Your risk of getting a serious heart problem doubles if you spend more than four hours a day watching TV or playing computer games. If you spend that much time in front of a screen you are extremely unlikely to be doing enough exercise to counteract the bad effects of couch potato-dom. This is the headline finding of an Anglo …
"People who spend excessive amounts of time in front of a screen - primarily watching TV - are more likely to die of any cause and suffer heart-related problems.
more likely to die of any cause? So someone who spends all day watching TV is more like to be killed in an avalanche whilst skiing than anyone else? Amazing bit of research that, probably the avalanche will be a result of the heart disease....
Anyway, I'm off for a mars bar supper and to catch up on some TV.
I also conclude from this that if you sit in more than 1 lecture a day at Uni / College / Where-ever then you also have a higher risk.
What about the people that sit for 4 hours or more and do nothing? Or those that sit for 4 or more and shock horror also exercise at some point?
Useless study is well erm useless. Who pays these people?
Bah I was sucked in... coat please.
...pah, the students of today...I spent most of my lectures asleep/drinking, not studying... :-)
Does that count as sitting (bad for you) or sleeping (good for you)?
Also, I'm a cyclist now, so regularly spend 3-4hrs sitting (bad)... and exercising (good). Do they cancel each other out?
Seriously, "Sitting on yer arse all day doing next to no physical movements will lead you to being a fat, lazy bastard who will die of something fat, lazy bastards die off."
Well bugger me with a fish fork!
The HR dept where I am nags us at least once every 6 months about sitting on our arses at the screens all day, telling us to re-focus every 5 mins and get off our backsides once an hour for 5 minutes, this is hardly news is it?
Welcome back to 18th Century thinking, where we the workers are held in the 'dark satanic mills' of the 21st Century!
Double? From how much? Does my risk increase from 1/100 to 2/100? Or 20/100 to 40/100?
Let's not talk relative increases, El Reg, please can we have the actual numbers and not sensationalist daily mirror attention grabbing? Accurate it may be, but clearly misleading. Give us the actual science, we can handle it.
PS fatties LOL
Yerst, there's a lot left out - Well, I hope it was left out and not even considered in the first place.
I would hazard a guess that over 50% of Reg readers sit easily in the 'on arse most of the day' part of the data but not all will be shoving down pizza and Coke and Red Bull and sweets and all those other seemingly minor things that will also contribute to heart disease --
-- nearly forgot, multiple-occupancy workplace also doesn't allow 40 a day --- those at work in an office will get exercise trying to keep warm hopping about outside the fire escape door while on thier 'comfort' break.
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