{"id":197852,"date":"2010-01-19T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/19\/how-watching-tv-can-shorten-your-life\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T07:30:00","slug":"how-watching-tv-can-shorten-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/197852","title":{"rendered":"How Watching TV Can Shorten Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/category\/advice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/category\/fitness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fitness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/01\/couch.jpg\" \/>We hear all of the time about how watching too much television can interfere with your enjoyment of life &#8212; but what about interfering with your life, period? A new study, reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704055104574652340708172608.html?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLEFifthNews\" >Ron Winslow at the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a>, links the amount of time spent watching television to risk of death &#8212; and the more you watch, the greater the risk. Surprisingly, when the study accounted for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=obesity\">obesity<\/a> and a sedentary lifestyle, even fit people who exercised regularly saw their risk of death rise along with the amount of time spent in front of the tube. The biggest problem? Prolonged periods of just sitting in one place. TV watching is a popular pastime, and Americans average more than five hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>The details and information about your own risk of death after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/19\/how-watching-tv-can-shorten-your-life\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>How Watching TV Can Shorten Your Life<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/19\/how-watching-tv-can-shorten-your-life\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19318527\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/19\/how-watching-tv-can-shorten-your-life\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Advice, Health, Fitness We hear all of the time about how watching too much television can interfere with your enjoyment of life &#8212; but what about interfering with your life, period? A new study, reported by Ron Winslow at the The Wall Street Journal, links the amount of time spent watching television to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}