TV Hurts More Than Anything Else
If there’s one danger of watching TV, it’s sitting for several hours. More sitting means less time exercising and more mindless eating, so it’s no wonder that TV contributes to diabetes. In 2015, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes concluded that every hour of TV watching raises your diabetes risk by 3.4%.
Notably, participants who were discouraged from sitting were not persuaded to exercise. But that’s what happened anyway–when people stayed away from the TV, they worked out more. If you want to lower your risk of type 2 diabetes, simply unplug your television.
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