Study: Binge-Watching Television Will Make You Die Young

A new study from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain has found that, if you’re one of the people who regularly likes to binge-watch shows in lieu of socializing, you’re probably going to die much sooner than everyone else, in much more nasty ways.

Specifically, if you watch three or more hours of television per day, you have a “twofold higher risk of mortality than those reporting less than one hour a day,” according to the study’s authors writing in the Journal of the American Heart Association. If you’re young, healthy, and relatively wealthy, that won’t help much, says NBC:

For every two extra hours of watching TV over and above one hour a day, the volunteers were 44 percent more likely to die from heart disease or stroke, 21 percent more likely to die of cancer and 55 percent more likely to die from something else, and that’s taking in account their age, sex, whether they smoked, whether they were obese and whether they ate a healthy, Mediterranean diet.

This fits in with other recent research that shows for every two hours spent sitting in front of the computer or television, the average American raises his or her risk of colon cancer by 8 percent, of endometrial cancer by 10 percent and of lung cancer by 6 percent.

On the upside, all that binge-watching will help you with your post-cancer plans to become a murderous meth lord.

[NBC]
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