This is How Watching TV Will Kill You

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

Nevertheless, no direct link was found between patients’ deaths and their TV habits prior to diagnosis. Research from the US National Cancer Institute showed a relatively solid link between exercise, TV, and patient survival rates after examining more than 566,000 cases.

It was found that people who watched more television had increased risk of dying from colorectal cancer, yet, the links weren’t statistically relevant. Well, we can conclude on behalf of these valuable studies that some exercise is always better than no exercise at all.

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The Harvard School of Public Health and MassGeneral Hospital for Children collaborated to study the impacts of several factors, including watching television, during early childhood and pregnancy. Researchers looked into the amount of time older kids spent watching TV and whether the children had a television in their bedroom.

The results showed that every hour spent watching TV resulted in 7 fewer minutes of sleep while those who sleep in a room with a television had half an hour less of sleep! Moreover, it seemed that boys were more strongly affected than girls.

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A couple of different studies have revealed that the longer amount of time a baby spends staring at the TV, the more slowly they learn to talk.

In the first study by Seattle Children’s Research Institute, over 300 babies wore audio recorders for up to 16 hours and researchers observed that every hour spent in front of a television resulted in a remarkable decrease in the number of words the babies heard, about 770 fewer words per recording session. This means that their vocalization is eventually slowed down.

The other study found that babies learn to talk better from live conversations rather than virtual ones. Unlike when introduced to a live speaker, the babies weren’t able to show any improved ability when they were placed in front of the TV.

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