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TV Makes You Fat
Submitted by Lisa Johnson on June 22, 2009 – 8:44 pmOne Comment
This seems obvious but have you really thought about it? The average American spends about two hours a day watching TV! What else could you be doing during that time?
There are over 3,000 studies on obesity and television, do you know how many find a correlation between the two? 2,888. There are lots of negatives associated with TV watching …
- Your brain becomes less active and actually shuts down the areas that help discern fact from fiction
- You move less when watching TV than you do when reading or pretty much any other sedentary activity. Yes you actually burn a few more calories reading.
- And the biggie, if you’re watching TV you’re missing any opportunity to be active
An article in Prevention Magazine stated.
- The average American spends 151 hours watching TV per month.
- You have a 23% higher risk of obesity if you watch more than 60 hours per month
- You have a 14% higher risk of diabetes if you watch more than 60 hours per month
The next time you scratch your head about why you’ve put on a few pounds, don’t look at the scale, look at your remote.
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80% of the time I can’t watch tv unless I am doing something else, be it mucking around on the computer or drawing, or even stretching and sit ups. Probably due to the countless years spend as a child watching my dad do sit ups and bolster workouts while we watch star trek, hahaha. Luckily this habit carried over into my adult life. I don’t own a tv anymore, and pretty much only watch shows on my computer as a way to wind down at night :)