Health Policy Solutions published an insightful article on how weight loss is affected by TV and other factors, entitled, "How Netflix is making us fat."
Excerpt:
I'm a health writer so I try to monitor my wellness in part by wearing a pedometer. As my TV watching spiked, my steps plunged.
No surprise there. It turns out that that more than 10,000 people now being tracked on the
National Weight Control Registry who have successfully lost at least 30 pounds and kept it off for a year or more can’t be couch potatoes and move a lot more than average Americans.
Of those who have succeeded in losing weight and keeping it off:
- 62 percent watch fewer than 10 hours of TV per week
- 98 percent modified their food intake in some way to lose weight
- 94 percent increased their physical activity, most frequently by walking
Read the rest
here.
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