Spending your days in front of the television may contribute to a shortened lifespan, a new study suggests. Researchers of the University of Queensland in Australia found that people who averaged six hours a day of TV lived, on average, nearly five years less than people who watched no TV.
For every hour of television watched after age 25, lifespan fell by 22 minutes, according to the research. But other experts cautioned that the study did not show that TV watching caused people to die sooner, only that there was an association between watching lots of TV and a shorter lifespan.
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It's not the TV that shortens lifespans; it's the inactivity. They could have said "Reading books lowers your lifespan" or "Cloud gazing lowers your lifespan" too.
Yeah, and that new thing all the hipsters are doing now... what's it called? Oh, yes--"Paint Watchin'" (tm)
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