Can watching TV make you die younger?

[ditzy_pole]

I have just read this article on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14534025Read more... )

Comments

[apis_cerana]

We have a projector and don't have cable tv...so we usually just watch an hour or so of some random show on Netflix; lately it's been X Files.

[kickthehobbit]

I watch old shows like Star Trek on my computer with my boyfriend every now and then, but of the two TVs we have, neither actually gets television-television, and both are used for gaming only.

[lulu_girl]

I watch way too much tv, and I don't even have tv reception. I am way too invested in netflix.

oh boy I can watch all sorts of foreign movies I didn't know existed and documentaries about dung beetles and OMG!BRITISH TV SHOWS *adds all to queue*

bah I need an intervention.

[wyrdness]

We have a TV, but it's more for gaming. I think the only thing I watch on it is Doctor Who, so that's once a week for less than half the year.

We do download some American series though to watch on the computer and I do love my crappy Japanese dramas (it's like watching an overly contrived anime, but with real people!) so I guess our actual TV viewing is around 2-4 hours a week in all.

[satyrica]

we technically have a TV in our house but there's something wrong with the aerial we've never been motivated to sort out so we can't actually *get* TV although we can use it to watch DVDs

I would watch some TV online but my laptop shuts down whenever you ask it to cope with moving images . . .