To
live longer throw the Idiot Box out!
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Amrita Mukhopadhyay
Who could actually think that there would be a study on TV viewing and
it would actually conclude it to be as harmful as smoking or obesity. In
today’s world where we don’t know what really reduces the life expectancy of people
as everything seems to be hazardous to us, if the television is to be also blamed for
killing humans early, where will the prime time people go? Professor David
Dunstan of the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia
and colleagues seem to have found last year that if someone watches the TV for
an hour every day, he/she has an 8% higher risk of premature death especially
from cardio vascular diseases. Just imagine, without watching the TV, either
for news, entertainment or sports etc, how the human race will survive. I would
rather comment that they would die every day in today’s scenario if people are
not allowed to watch the Idiot box. It has become such an essential and
important part of people’s life like a basic necessity. I mean just try telling
any house wife that they would be barred to watch Tv throughout her life,
forget the cardiovascular disease, she would get an immediate heart attack and
die. The point about this feedback to the article is that, there would be many
studies coming out, but to stop viewing TV for a longer life? Nah!
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