New research shows that heavy TV viewing significantly increases chances of early mortality. Credit: iStockPhoto
By Denali Tietjen
Boston.com Staff
JUNE 26, 2014 3:51 PM
SHARE COMMENTSHARE24COMMENTI definitely lost a friend or two during my “How I Met Your Mother” phase last winter, I’ll confess. But it turns out binge-watching television isn’t just social suicide, it quite literally kills you, too.
New research shows that people who watch three or more hours of TV per day have nearly twice the risk of early mortality than those who watch less.
The eighty-year study, published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association, followed 13,284 healthy Spanish university graduates to analyze the impact of sedentary behavior on risk of early death. The results found that excessive television viewing significantly increases one’s risk of early mortality. Surprisingly, no correlation between other sedentary behavior (like driving) and early death was found.
By the end of the study, 97 participants had died: 19 of cardiovascular disease, 46 of cancer and 32 of other causes. Participants who watched on average three or more hours of television per day had double the risk of dying early than those who watched an hour or less.
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