Another ganked from http://www.slashdot.org.

The Economic Times reports on an Australian study that found that a group of people who watched TV for four hours per day had an 80% higher chance of dying from heart disease than a group who watched less than 2 hours of TV per day. The argument being long periods of immobility signiifantly decrease health regardless of how active you are for the rest of your day. The effects were shown even when the study controlled for overall activity and factors such as smoking. Not sure how this translates into computer/internet use but I would assume it works out to about the same.

The challenge: How do nerds keep active while also staying interactive? How can a student or an employee decrease their immobility per day?

Tags: immobility, couch potato, health, cardiovascular disease, heart disease, activity, fitness,

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