Every hour you spend watching television each day increases your risk of dying from heart disease by almost a fifth, say scientists in Australia.
The findings were reported last month in Circulation, the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Prof. David Dunstan, the study’s lead researcher from the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Victoria, Australia, had this message for members of the public:
“In addition to doing regular exercise, avoid sitting for prolonged periods and keep in mind to ‘move more, more often’. Too much sitting is bad for health.”
Couch potatoes were warned that their lifestyle also increased the risk of death from other causes including cancer. Continue reading “Warning: watching too much TV can be really, really bad for your heart”
Heart Sisters 