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| Tuesday, September 9, 2008 |
| Daily TV Habit Might Cancel Out Your Exercise Program |
Favorite TV shows, your local professional sportteam, political campaigns, Jon Stewart, even the health segment on the evening news. Question: What do they all have in common?
Answer: Watching these things on TV can add up to a drag on your health goals—and that’s even if you are a regular exerciser. A 2008 study published by Australian researchers in the professional journal, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, reports that women who moderately or intensely worked out several times per week but also watched 43 to 86 minutes of television per day might have trouble maintaining healthy weight compared to women exercisers who watched little or no TV.
What’s more, those TV-viewing women who worked out experienced higher blood pressure and a jump in the heart disease blood marker triglycerides versus the non-TV watchers who were exercisers.
Continue reading...Labels: alternative health, alternative medicine, bob condor, exercise, high blood pressure |
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