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Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
Adults who watch TV three hours or more a day may double their risk of premature death from any cause. Researchers suggest adults should consider getting regular exercise, avoiding long sedentary periods and reducing TV viewing to one to two hours a day. http://www.sciencedaily.c...14/06/140625184853.htm
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 12:51:46
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What about sitting in front of a number of monitors composing, playing and mixing music?
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 12:57:04
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Adults who watch TV three hours or more a day may double their risk of premature death from any cause. Researchers suggest adults should consider getting regular exercise, avoiding long sedentary periods and reducing TV viewing to one to two hours a day.
http://www.sciencedaily.c...14/06/140625184853.htm
I think NOVA had a two hour special about this.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 13:02:31
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What about sitting in front of a number of monitors composing, playing and mixing music?
i don't think that counts, personally.. at least the way I do it, it's pretty active haven't seen that nova show, would like to......
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 13:07:21
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Adults who watch TV three hours or more a day may double their risk of premature death from any cause. Researchers suggest adults should consider getting regular exercise, avoiding long sedentary periods and reducing TV viewing to one to two hours a day.
http://www.sciencedaily.c...14/06/140625184853.htm
I think NOVA had a two hour special about this.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 13:17:21
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So basically, if shows like Jersey Shore & Honey Boo Boo were extended to 3 hours, the problem would take care of itself?
A glimmer of hope!
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 14:01:56
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☄ Helpfulby mike_mccue 2014/06/26 18:01:55
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Adults who watch TV three hours or more a day may double their risk of premature death from any cause. Researchers suggest adults should consider getting regular exercise, avoiding long sedentary periods and reducing TV viewing to one to two hours a day.
http://www.sciencedaily.c...14/06/140625184853.htm
I think NOVA had a two hour special about this.
I saw what you did there.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 14:44:33
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Reminds me of the guy who got hit by a bus while jogging... 
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 14:50:30
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nova is trying to be factually conscious. 
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 15:02:53
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Then females that work on a computer or a student in college should not have to sit in front of a monitor for the work day. Oh, only TV, and computers are not the same. Well, I am just happy then that they only make a hour and a half movie sometimes even less because some of these latest movies have been like over 2 hours, like 2 hours 20 minutes. Before they use to have like an intermission with the movie, not nowadays though.  How can you get more popcorn when the movie keeps going on then?
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 15:11:29
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Isn't it odd that as our attention span grows shorter and shorter, movies and records keep getting longer and longer?
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 15:12:14
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It's amazing how many people have zero hobbies outside of just sitting in front of the TV all night and all weekend. Got rid of mine 10 years ago - apart from the fact I was paying for output 99% of which was just completely unwatchable junk, I could not stand another second of the jingles, trailers, ads and other "filler" which they bombard you with. It really feels like wading through trash.
I think TV culture affects mass psychology in a big way. Today's junk reality shows, for instance, are turning people into some of the most insufferable douchebags in human history. And I wouldn't mind betting that it's making them more aggressive too. Reality TV is full of these fake "confrontations" in which people go tooth and claw at each other, safe in the knowledge that it's in front of the camera and thus potentially millions of witnesses should anything get out of hand. And so idiots are adopting the same kind of confrontational actions and body language in real life, only things get a little more serious when there's no camera crew around to make people think about consequence.
I truly believe that if everyone got rid of their TV's the world would be a better place.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 15:22:45
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☄ Helpfulby Mitch_I 2014/06/27 10:12:50
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It's amazing how many people have zero hobbies outside of just sitting in front of the TV all night and all weekend. Got rid of mine 10 years ago - apart from the fact I was paying for output 99% of which was just completely unwatchable junk, I could not stand another second of the jingles, trailers, ads and other "filler" which they bombard you with. It really feels like wading through trash.
I think TV culture affects mass psychology in a big way. Today's junk reality shows, for instance, are turning people into some of the most insufferable douchebags in human history. And I wouldn't mind betting that it's making them more aggressive too. Reality TV is full of these fake "confrontations" in which people go tooth and claw at each other, safe in the knowledge that it's in front of the camera and thus potentially millions of witnesses should anything get out of hand. And so idiots are adopting the same kind of confrontational actions and body language in real life, only things get a little more serious when there's no camera crew around to make people think about consequence.
I truly believe that if everyone got rid of their TV's the world would be a better place.
Monkey see, monkey do... It's pretty incredible when you take a step back to see just how much people will imitate what they see and hear, even speech patterns and intonation. Ever heard of that speech trend called "vocal fry"? I don't watch TV but I do watch series on the net - Star Trek and stuff. The minute the commercial break starts I hit mute. And this allows me to focus on mannerism, and how people just mimic one another and how even corporal expression has been brought down to a set of clichés. As for the rest, if you put something on tv, you make it legitimate. I remember I first noticed that way back when a show back home mocked common flaws among us back there. But instead of getting people to change, it actually made those flaws even more common, dare I say trendy. People gave in and indulged 100%, and adopted the idioms of that show, going as far as mimicking the comedians speech patterns and accents.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 15:28:40
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Yes, and then there was the old or still Jerry Springer show. I have to laugh at any of it. You should feel more emotions perhaps about any of that. As well as American Teen Age Idol or whatever it is nowadays, the Voice, the Stars Dancing, but I refuse to watch too much of any of it. But you should want to help people. Here I will help people - turn off the TV, even the News has become a commercial anymore for health problems and medicine people should be taking. God, we all should be dead I guess!
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
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☄ Helpfulby craigb 2014/06/26 21:22:47
Let us not foregt that John lennon and Elvis were both big TV fans and both died prematurely. I suppose this proves the hypothesis conclusively.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 21:28:45
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I've noticed that having an appropriate sample size merely gets in the way of a good theory.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 21:30:23
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If they said immature death--then I'd be worried.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 21:41:24
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If they said immature death--then I'd be worried.
That's saved for the FSF.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 22:07:44
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So basically, if shows like Jersey Shore & Honey Boo Boo were extended to 3 hours,
I just broke out in a cold sweat even considering that possibility  . My wife finds it hilarious that with my disdain for TV, I work for the cable company here. Fortunately, we also provide awesome internet service, and keeping those modems on line is my prime focus.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/26 23:27:51
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So basically, if shows like Jersey Shore & Honey Boo Boo were extended to 3 hours,
I just broke out in a cold sweat even considering that possibility.
My wife finds it hilarious that with my disdain for TV, I work for the cable company here.
Fortunately, we also provide awesome internet service, and keeping those modems on line is my prime focus.
Confession time - I never saw either. I'm aware of them through South Park. Like lots of things in pop culture - from Kanye West to internet sensations like the Chocolate Rain guy... What I get through South Park is more than enough for me.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/27 01:51:00
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TV or not TV
That is the question...
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/27 03:50:33
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Adults who watch TV three hours or more a day may double their risk of premature death from any cause.
Shirley it reduces your chance of being killed by a bus... sharke
I truly believe that if everyone got rid of their TV's the world would be a better place.
But how would you know? Hmmm?
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/27 09:27:20
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If it were true, I'd already be dead.
I wonder how they determine "premature"?
When the bus comes, it's time to go.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/27 09:40:01
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I rode a Greyhound bus for 48 hours more than a dozen times.
After three hours, death doesn't seem quite so premature anymore.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/27 12:32:16
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I rode a Greyhound bus for 48 hours more than a dozen times.
After three hours, death doesn't seem quite so premature anymore.
Probably better than riding a greyhound though...
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/27 13:37:42
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Explain my in-laws.
They are 86 and they watch about 6-8 hours of TV a day.
Both are literally healthy as can be.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/27 13:41:03
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2014/06/27 13:58:02
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Explain my in-laws.
They are 86 and they watch about 6-8 hours of TV a day.
Both are literally healthy as can be.
They are 86 and they watch about 6-8 hours of The "Jack LaLanne Show" a day. fixed
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/27 15:22:13
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I'm at a loss as to how people could actually find 3 hours of TV they wanted to watch. They must be gorging on infomercials, surely.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/27 15:25:00
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I'm currently watching a TOTP from 1979. Utterly bizarre. Then I'll be watching some stuff from Glastonbury for a couple of hours. No commercials.
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Re: Watching too much TV = early death: Three hours a day linked to premature death
2014/06/27 19:18:27
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bapu
Explain my in-laws.
They are 86 and they watch about 6-8 hours of TV a day.
Both are literally healthy as can be.
It just means they'll outlive us all by 35 years. Had they not watched so much TV they could have outlived us all by 36 years...
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