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Study: An hour of TV can shorten your life by 22 minutes
An extrapolation of these figures found that a single hour of TV was responsible for the loss of just under 22 minutes of life, the news agency reported.
Smoking two cigarettes has approximately the same effect.
The problem is not actually TV itself but the lack of activity by the viewer for long periods, the researches said. Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, excess weight and other health problems are associated with a sedentary lifestyle.
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What if you skip the commercials?
Slublog on August 16, 2011 at 4:44 PM
An hour of MSNBC can make you want to kill yourself.
That was too easy.
jon1979 on August 16, 2011 at 4:44 PM
What is more likely:
1) I would have lived to 142, otherwise I’d be dead by now.
or
2) This “study” is full of crap.
You…make the call.
DrAllecon on August 16, 2011 at 4:45 PM
I am a ghost. I died in 1992.
carbon_footprint on August 16, 2011 at 4:46 PM
Oh that’s ridiculous. These correlation studies are really BS.
Clark1 on August 16, 2011 at 4:46 PM
The studied also showed that an hour on HotAir can shorten your life by 33 minutes.
WashJeff on August 16, 2011 at 4:47 PM
So add “TV watching” to the list of prohibited activities to qualify for ObamaCare. Smoker? No care for you! Obesity? No Care! TV Watcher? GTFO the ER!
PoliTech on August 16, 2011 at 4:48 PM
So what they’re really saying is that an hour of sitting and doing very little movement is what lowers your life expectancy.
MadisonConservative on August 16, 2011 at 4:49 PM
What if it’s All Sarah All the Time?
Seth Halpern on August 16, 2011 at 4:51 PM
Sec. Vilsak just called to explain all of this to you wingnuts; there are 60 minutes in an hour, so if you spend an hour watching TV your life will be shortened by 22 minutes, however there are still 38 more minutes in that hour that will go to lengthening your lifespan. So, if you quit your job, go on food stamps, and spend all day watching we’ll all be rich and live forever.
Any questions?
BuckNutty on August 16, 2011 at 4:51 PM
Wouldn’t life expectancy be plummeting if this were true?
changer1701 on August 16, 2011 at 4:51 PM
When I was a kid I probably watched 30 hours of TV every week.
So in a week 30×22 I lost 660 minutes of my life. In a year I lost 34,320 minutes. Over ten years I lost 343,200 minutes, which are 5720 hours, which are 238 days. All this just from when I was a kid.
El_Terrible on August 16, 2011 at 4:53 PM
Major wrong here. An hour on HotAir is a complete cardiovascular and mental workout that extends one life in a direct proportion to the time spent here. Double time if the trolls are out.
meci on August 16, 2011 at 4:55 PM
Oops
BuckNutty on August 16, 2011 at 4:55 PM
This only happens when Obama is on TV
faraway on August 16, 2011 at 4:58 PM
I agree that watching Rachel Maddow for an hour a day will shorten one’s life.
NotCoach on August 16, 2011 at 4:59 PM
Working in an office 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year for 40 years will cost you 3.5 years of your life, and this is if you do no over time. All that time they had you couped up in school? Another 1.5 years gone. 5 years of your life gone, just like that, right off the top!
astonerii on August 16, 2011 at 5:04 PM
But with TEVO, it only shortens your life by 11 minutes.
portlandon on August 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM
But with TEVO, it only shortens your life by 11 minutes.
portlandon on August 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM
made me laugh
Indian Outlaw on August 16, 2011 at 5:11 PM
What? How is this any different from working at a desk? We’d all be dead by 40 if this were true.
John_Locke on August 16, 2011 at 5:11 PM
Even more if you read all of the posts by bayam and crr6 and Tom_Shipley! Did I leave anyone out?
Del Dolemonte on August 16, 2011 at 5:12 PM
I must be dead already.
matthew26 on August 16, 2011 at 5:14 PM
An hour of listening to Obama speaking can shorten the life of yuor brain cells by 22
minutesmonths.malclave on August 16, 2011 at 5:14 PM
But what an hour!
thebrokenrattle on August 16, 2011 at 5:28 PM
Study: An hour of MSNBC can lower your IQ by 22 points
miConsevative on August 16, 2011 at 5:38 PM
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
BierManVA on August 16, 2011 at 5:40 PM
8 hours of sleep at night can shorten your life by almost three hours.
I’m for tough legislation!
Kensington on August 16, 2011 at 5:42 PM
And here I thought only God knows the time of our passing.
Silly me…
karl9000 on August 16, 2011 at 5:50 PM
an ill-timed bus can shorten it a lot more
John the Libertarian on August 16, 2011 at 6:14 PM