Individuals who reported watching 4 or extra hours of TV a day had a 50 p.c larger danger of coronary heart illness than those that watched two hours or much less, says Jeanette Garcia, Ph.D., assistant professor of well being sciences at the College of Central Florida. (That impact wasn’t related to sitting quite a bit at work.)
The good equalizer seems to be train: Individuals who watched 4 or extra hours every week of TV however who additionally logged 150 minutes every week of vigorous train akin to brisk strolling or aerobics had the identical degree of danger as the sunshine TV watchers. So go forward and binge-watch — a bit — and you’ll want to counteract these detrimental Netflix results with loads of every day motion.
