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http://sourcefednews.com/2012/10/16/tv-shortens-your-life-span/

Per an upcoming article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine every hour of Television you consume over the age of 25 shortens your lifespan 22 minutes.

How much have you shortened your life span this week Dakka?

Personally I don't count towards the study as I'm not over 25, but I really don't watch that much TV, I usually buy box sets of the shows I want to watch and take those an episode or two at the time and I refuse to even purchase cable.

Guess I'm gonna be dead by 35. Oh well. At least I won't have to sit through the next 40+ years of this train wreck called Humanity

Not over 25, my life is good still

But at the same time, I sit in an office chair for 8 hours a day, I am, as PhillyD says, a meat bag...

Fortunately, I don´t watch TV. I do follow the occasional show, but I watch those on my laptop, which isn´t a TV .

This just in: every breath you take reduces your lifespan by one breath!

Im 20, 5 more years of good television.
Turns it on.....Jersey Shore.
Screw it, time to read a book

Good think I only watch from my computer!

Meanwhile, watch End of Evangelion and you won't want to live past 35.

I only looked it up and I am already depressed.

Thank god I only watch about 3 hours of tv a week! On the other hand I do smoke 1/2 a pack of cigs a day. But I don't drink or do drugs. And I read, eat healthy, and work out. So am I canceling out everything? Probably not but tv won't be my dying grace!!! Haha

I wonder if the results would be similar for hours looking at a computer screen or watching films, or if it's really just specific to broadcast television.

 Hordini wrote:
I wonder if the results would be similar for hours looking at a computer screen or watching films, or if it's really just specific to broadcast television.

I'm more interested in that too, by the time i'm 25 all TV will probally be on a computer anyway.

A correllary, every hour of TV you watch during election season shortens your lifespan 22 days.

 Easy E wrote:
A correllary, every hour of TV you watch during election season shortens your lifespan 22 days.

Or by however many years of life you have left if the sheer stupidity of election year finally drives you to suicide.

I'm a little iffy on this study. I doubt they came to something as media-friendly as "This shortens your life by X amount". Journalists love to write misleading titles for studies.

What were their controls (This is very important, a recent and farcical study that showed a link to cancer and GM foods was basically thrown out because the only control was exposure to light)? What was the lifestyle of the people studied? Did they do no exercise at all? What was their diet like?

This sounds more like something you could argue against just sitting around inactive, not just watching TV.

I'm not really arguing against the actual study, if anything it's stating the bleeding obvious that a sedentary lifestyle shortens your life span.

Some us be dead already.....from porn...

 Jihadin wrote:
Some us be dead already.....from porn...

But if we're all dead already... Does that make Dakka Dakka hell?

Somehow, I thought hell would be... grim darkierer.

and no porn...

Read the article. They write what I was thinking; TV itself doesn't shorten your life span. Being an amorphous blob, eating chips and drinking soda all day shortens your lifespan. I think this study caught the difference between people who try to live healthy vs. people who don't. After all, if you're off being productive you're not really watching TV (or browsing dakkadakka/reddit/4chan/etc...)

Waiting to see the study that shows 4chan shortens lifespans. It probably has a more direct effect than TV.

Another one of those studies that says "this thing you do will kill you." I always get nervous every time that I hear a newscaster begin a sentence with "a recent study shows..."

I wonder what the Internet does to you?

 Avatar 720 wrote:
This just in: every breath you take reduces your lifespan by one breath!

A recent study has show that life is the main cause of death.

 purplefood wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:
This just in: every breath you take reduces your lifespan by one breath!

A recent study has show that life is the main cause of death.

Another showed that 100% of people that consume food die. Obviously the solution is to stop eating.

 purplefood wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:
This just in: every breath you take reduces your lifespan by one breath!

A recent study has show that life is the main cause of death.

A recent study shows sex is the main cause of death.

 Grey Templar wrote:

Another showed that 100% of people that consume food die. Obviously the solution is to stop eating.

At least this (the TV bit) isn't as ignorant (unfortunately, not as funny either) as the petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide. To think, some politicians actually wanted to ban it .

If you've somehow missed it here is one of the petition sites.

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

Hanith wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:

Another showed that 100% of people that consume food die. Obviously the solution is to stop eating.

At least this (the TV bit) isn't as ignorant (unfortunately, not as funny either) as the petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide. To think, some politicians actually wanted to ban it .

If you've somehow missed it here is one of the petition sites.

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

It just shows how people don't check things when they hear about it.

Anyone with basic knowledge of chemistry would know that Di-hydrogen Monoxide is what water would be called under the current method of naming chemical compounds.


And yes, this is one of the more serious things.

Of course, my guess is that it isn't the TV itself thats killing you. Its laying around like a fatass on the couch while watching it thats doing the damage. And the same could be applied to being on the internet.... wait a sec

 Grey Templar wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:
This just in: every breath you take reduces your lifespan by one breath!

A recent study has show that life is the main cause of death.

Another showed that 100% of people that consume food die. Obviously the solution is to stop eating.

Clearly, Grey Templar is correct.

Because SCIENCE!

While we're at it, stop breathing too. That might also be a cause of death.

The study found that T.V. viewing time may be associated with a loss of life that is comparable to other major chronic disease risk factors such a physical inactivity, smoking and obesity. The finding suggest that substantial loss of life may be associated with prolonged T.V. viewing time among Australian adults.

No autocorrelation there at all.

Its almost like activities which encourage physical inactivity shorten life spans.

Grey Templar wrote:While we're at it, stop breathing too. That might also be a cause of death.

I thought we already established that

Avatar 720 wrote:every breath you take reduces your lifespan by one breath!

I went up to the peak to speak with the hermit of the mountain. Exhausted and panting, I asked him: "Hermit of the mountain, what is the secret to eternal life?"

Hermit of the Mountain: "Don't stop breathing."