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Couch Potatos Beware

Discussion in 'Alley of Dangerous Angles' started by Beren, Aug 18, 2011.

  1. Beren

    Beren Lovesick and Lonely Wanderer Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Beren, Aug 18, 2011
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  2. Aldeth the Foppish Idiot

    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot Armed with My Mallet O' Thinking Veteran

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    I guess my question is this. If sitting on your couch watching TV for a hour is bad for you, then I assume that sitting in front of your computer playing a game is similarly bad for you. And certainly sitting at your desk at work for 8 hours a day has to be pretty bad for you too. Or sitting down and reading a book. I don't get what about the TV is significantly different than any other non-physical activity.

    I've said it before - if you work at an office you necessarily live a sedentary lifestyle. I'm at work - in meetings and in front of a keyboard - about 9 hours each day, and spend another 2 hours per day in the car. I workout when I get home because it's the only physical activity I have all day.

    I'm sure it does knock years off your life - but certainly the time I spend watching TV each day (usually the 11:00 news and/or Sports Center right before I go to bed) is small potatoes compared to the sedentary activities I'm doing all day.

    I have to wonder if the people who watch the most TV have shorter life expectancies not because they are watching TV (the article said some people watch on average 6 hours per day), but because they are generally inactive. I mean, I cannot see how you can average 6 hours of TV viewing per day and still have a job and a family.
     
    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot, Aug 18, 2011
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  3. Gaear

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    And if that's true and you work an eight hour day on average, you lose 2.93 hours of life per day! Even if we round that down to 2.0 due to walking to the restroom and whatnot, that's still a heavy price to pay for going to work.

    I don't think I buy it, and like Aldeth I don't see the difference between sitting here and sitting there, unless they're saying that TV causes 'brain rot' or something and that's what's causing you harm.
     
    Gaear, Aug 18, 2011
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    It's all about the habits and lifestyle, as the article points out. Unfortunately the very nature of the study makes it a questionable one, at best.

    It's like studying the symptoms of a disease and figuring out that these can have an adverse effect on your health, all the while completely ignoring the actual disease itself.
     
    Paracelsi, Aug 19, 2011
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  5. Silvery

    Silvery I won't pretend to be your friend coz I'm just not ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran

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    Good point that
     
    Silvery, Aug 19, 2011
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