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Next time you're watching TV, ask youself if there's something else you could be doing.
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Research has already shown that watching less television can make you happier. A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has found that the opposite is also true. That is, watching too much TV can make you depressed, anxious, and altogether out of sorts.
THE DETAILS: The researchers used data collected from extensive surveys filled out by 3,920 Scottish adults. One survey was devoted to psychological health and measured signs of depression and anxiety. Another measured how much physical activity the participants got, and how much time they spent doing sedentary activities like watching television. The researchers also collected data on physical health, such as body mass index, smoking behavior, and intake of fresh produce and alcohol.
Roughly 70 percent of the adults reported watching television for more than two hours per day, and 66 percent were classified as obese. Perhaps not surprisingly, longer television watching was associated with increased obesity, lower intake of fresh produce, and decreased physical activity. But increased television watching was also correlated with decreased psychological health. More specifically, as hours of television increased, so too did a person's level of depression and anxiety.
WHAT IT MEANS: As with kids who watch too much television, adults get stressed out and depressed from too much screen time and sedentary behavior. "We are seeing that too much sedentary behavior has more and more harmful health effects," says the study's lead author Mark Hamer, PhD, senior research fellow in the department of epidemiology and public health at University College London. And in this case physical exercise didn’t seem to help, though past research has shown it improves mental health. In Hamer's study, people who watched more than two hours of television a day but got the recommended 30 minutes of exercise per day were still more likely to feel depressed and anxious. Hamer say it's unclear why TV seems to have this effect on people. The bottom line? "Try to limit sedentary TV time as much as possible," Hamer says.
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Re: Interesting... I wonder...
The lead author of the study said that it was the sedentary nature of TV watching that led to the heightened depression. So if that's the cause, one could assume that any sort of sedentary screen time, whether watching DVDs, Hulu, or any other kind of television entertainment would increase the likelihood of depression. He said that they did not look at the type of programming, though (whether the study participants were watching more violent tv, for instance) so he couldn't make any assumptions about what the people were watching. But he did note that if you enjoy watching TV and view it as a stress reducer, that could have some kind of mitigating affect on any anxiety. So, watch as little TV as possible, but make sure the stuff you do watch makes you happy, and don't just mindlessly flip through the channels looking for a distraction!
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Cutting back
A few years ago, we decided we were going to cut back from our typical two hours an evening of TV.
How to do that? Well, we decided we were going to eliminate programs with the main theme of violence.
Guess what? There was hardly anything left to watch! We were left with West Wing, Judging Amy, and the Gilmore Girls! (Now I'm dating myself...)
I highly recommend this method for cutting back, especially for kids. We now watch NO live TV, although we do watch movies and TV programs on DVD.
Interesting... I wonder...
I wonder what it was about the TV experience that produced these results.
Would you get the same results from watching TV programs from DVD, without the commercials? What about just movies from DVD? What about (horrors) watching video programming on the Internet?