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TV Couch Potatoes May Be Heading for Early Deaths, Report Says
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Watching television, America’s most-popular daily activity after sleeping and working, can raise the risk of diabetes, heart disease and premature death when people do it for too long, according to an analysis of eight studies.
For every two hours of TV viewing, the risk of type 2 diabetes increased 20 percent, the risk of cardiovascular disease rose 15 percent and the risk of early death rose 13 percent, according to the research published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.