Adults who watch TV for three hours or more every day could be doubling their risk of premature death.
"Television viewing is a major sedentary behavior and there is an increasing trend toward all types of sedentary behaviors," Miguel Martinez-Gonzalez, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., the study's lead author and professor and chair of the Department of Public Health at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain., said in an American Heart Association news release. "Our findings are consistent with a range of previous studies where time spent watching television was linked to mortality."
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