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Can watching TV kill you? What if you just listen?

By Jim June 15, 2011

The web is vibrating today with the news (loosely speaking) that TV viewing can kill you.  This is not a metaphoric brain-death that we are talking about here, folks; it is actual, stone-cold, stick-you-in-the-ground death.  Consider the following headlines gleaned this morning from a variety of online media sources via Google News: Too Much TV Linked With Disease and Early Death Alice Park, Time Healthland. TV Time Linked to Diabetes, Death, Crystal Phend, ABC News. TV gives you diabetes and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Critiques, Media Watch Tagged With: death, diabetes, exercise, health, heart disease, JAMA, TV viewing

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