Researchers have uncovered a strong – but not surprising – link between television watching and life expectancy.
Data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for 2005-06 and 2009-10 was used to determine the amount of time that American adults spend watching TV and sitting down each day. Researchers crunched those numbers with findings from studies that examined the link between the amount of time people spend sitting and deaths from all causes.