How Limiting TV Can Save Your Heart - AI Podcast
Apr 08, 2025•11 min
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- Spending more than two hours a day watching TV increases your heart disease risk by 12%, even if you have low genetic risk for Type 2 diabetes
- Limiting television viewing to less than one hour daily cuts heart disease risk, even in people with high genetic risk for Type 2 diabetes, according to new research
- Each extra hour of daily TV time raises your chances of developing heart disease by 3%, building up dangerous plaque in your arteries over time
- Watching TV displaces physical activity, encourages junk food and alcohol consumption, and leads to sluggish blood flow and dangerous clot formation
- Reducing your TV time and moving more helps prevent heart disease, no matter your genetics — sitting less is a simple, powerful daily change
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