Watching 3 hours of daily TV doubles early death risk

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Watching 3 hours of daily TV doubles early death risk

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/watching-3-hours-daily-tv-doubles-early-death-201244795.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Evn7_Ho.oyVo4vBOll2yLw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/6d0b359203532fb362d6d1b1bd727ce91ada73e9.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A customer looks over televisions offered for sale at a Best Buy store on October 15, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois" align="left" title="A customer looks over televisions offered for sale at a Best Buy store on October 15, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois" border="0" /></a>People who watch three or more hours of television daily may be twice as likely to die prematurely than people who watch less, according to a study on Wednesday. The research in the Journal of the American Heart Association is the latest to describe the potential dangers of a sedentary lifestyle, which include high blood pressure, obesity, cancer and heart disease. &quot;Our findings are consistent with a range of previous studies where time spent watching television was linked to mortality,&quot; said lead author Miguel Martinez-Gonzalez, chair of the department of public health at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. Researchers wanted to find out if there was any link between dying young and the amount of television watched.</p><br clear="all"/>

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