Exercise is Useless

Exercise is useless if you watch television too much. Yes that’s right. A study has found that even if you do regular exercise, watching television for more than four hours a day, will really put yourself in a serious health risk.

After tracking 8,800 people for an average of six years, Australian researchers found that study participants who watched more than four hours of television per day were “46 percent more likely to die of any cause and 80 percent more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than people who reported spending less than two hours a day” in front of the TV. – Source www.mnn.com

Another bad news is that the study participants are doing exercise for average 30-45 minutes of exercise a day. Even-though they did the exercise, their risk of death from cardiovascular disease increased by 18% for each hour they reported watching television. It seems that doing regular exercise is useless, especially when you watch television for more than four hour a day.

Well, actually, it’s not really watching television that may kill you. In general, when you sit for a long period of time everyday, it will really influence your body. It will influence your capability to process fat and in the end, it will increase the possibility of having heart attack. If you already have some fat in your body, then perhaps you should think to increase the duration and intensity of your exercise, since it’s proven from the study that 30-45 minutes of exercise is not enough.

So, it’s really like a warning for us who work in the office, or spend most of our time in front of the computer. Yes, I mean you’re also included in the list, bloggers! If you really need to stay in the office for 8 hours a day, then you should take a few minutes break every hour just to do a little exercise for your body. There is no study that say it is efficient, but it’s worth to try.