A new study from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain has found that, if you’re one of the people who regularly likes to binge-watch shows in lieu of socializing, you’re probably going to die much sooner than everyone else, in much more nasty ways.
Specifically, if you watch three or more hours of television per day, you have a “twofold higher risk of mortality than those reporting less than one hour a day,” according to the study’s authors writing in the Journal of the American Heart Association. If you’re young, healthy, and relatively wealthy, that won’t help much, says NBC:
For every two extra hours of watching TV over and above one hour a day, the volunteers were 44 percent more likely to die from heart disease or stroke, 21 percent more likely to die of cancer and 55 percent more likely to die from something else, and that’s taking in account their age, sex, whether they smoked, whether they were obese and whether they ate a healthy, Mediterranean diet.
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