People who stay more than a few hours watching television are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease, a study whose data have been published in specialized scientific journal Journal of the American Medical Association. The frightening statistics indicate that every day most Europeans spend between 3.5 and 4 hours watching TV, thus putting at risk their health. People watching TV not only in sports, they tend to eat poor quality food in industrial quantities, experts say. The combination of a sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy diet and obesity is a prerequisite for the development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. That study is the first of its kind, linking television viewing with health problems, experts remind. In the 2007 report has concluded that time spent watching TV increases blood pressure in obese children. Another study even concluded that overweight children who watch commercials on food tend to consume more calories than double what is necessary. In the new study were analyzed data from 8 large studies, in which participated more than 200,000 people. The conclusion was that for every two hours spent watching television at risk of developing diabetes increased by 20%, cardiovascular risk – 15% and the risk of death – by 13%.
Based on these results, researchers estimated that if 100,000 people cut in front of the TV stay at least two hours, it will prevent 176 new cases of diabetes, 38 cases of fatal cardiovascular disease and 104 cases of premature death. To be more responsible to their own health, experts recommend to spend at least 30 minutes of physical activity every day. It would be much more beneficial than sitting watching TV.
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