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Join Date: 18 Jul 2010
Location:  KuwaitPosts: 274 |
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Too much TV is a channel to diabetes |
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Watching television is the most entertaining and common daily activity world over, but doctors say that it is time people changed their viewing habits
According to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), prolonged TV viewing was found to be associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and premature death. The results showed that more than two hours of TV viewing per day increased risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and more than three hours of daily viewing increased risk of premature death. For each additional two hours of TV viewing per day, the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and premature mortality increased by 20, 15, and 13%, respectively. The researchers found that the effect of prolonged TV viewing on type 2 diabetes, which usually occur in adults, was related to unhealthy eating habits and low activity levels. The experts from University of Southern Denmark, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts, who conducted the study wrote that TV is the most prevalent and pervasive sedentary behaviour in industrialised countries and has been associated with morbidity and mortality. "Sedentary lifestyle, especially prolonged TV watching, is clearly an important and modifiable risk factor for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. While the associations between time spent viewing TV and risk of Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease were linear, the risk of all-cause mortality appeared to increase with TV viewing duration of greater than 3 hours per day," the study said. Indian doctors said that the study was of greater importance for India where TV viewing was increasing fast. |
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