The article "Turn Off Your TV!" by Alice Park is all about turning off your TV and getting up to save your life! This article explains how sitting down watching TV is not helping your health. Every minute spent staring at that screen is a minute you could have spent outside enjoying nature, getting exercise.
You sit down and take minutes and hours of your day staring at a large screen for entertainment. Those are minutes and hours you are taking out of day and life. The article said that studies "found that people who watched an average six hours of TV a day lived an average 4.8 years less than those who didn't watch any television." Six hours each day that take about five years of your life away. Six hours that could have been spent doing something else that would take the same time and yet not take anything away from you.
Instead of sitting down, inside, doing nothing but watch TV you could go outside. Take a breath of fresh air, smell the flowers, take a walk. Enjoy the sunlight and enjoy your full life! According to Lennert Veerman, "exercise is good. Even light physical activity also improves health." So why not take a little exercise? It could prevent you from developing diseases such as diabetes or heart problems. You still need exercise, even if you try to adjust your diet so you can watch more TV.
In conclusion sitting down watching TV is not a healthy way to spend your time. It takes time out of your life while you're watching it and in the long run years more. So go outside, enjoy the world as it is and get in shape. Don't sit on your butt all day and put your life in jeopardy of health issues.
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