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Watching hours of TV daily could shorten your life
Reuters - Tuesday, January 12
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SYDNEY - Couch potatoes, beware. Sitting in front of the television for hours daily could shorten your life, according to an Australian study.
Researchers from the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in the state of Victoria tracked the lifestyle habits of 8,800 adults and found that each hour spent in front of the TV daily increased the risk of dying earlier from cardiovascular disease.
The study, published in "Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association," found every hour in front of the TV was associated with an 11 percent increased risk of death from all causes, a 9 percent higher risk of cancer death, and an 18 percent increased risk of cardiovascular disease related death.
"Compared with people who watched less than two hours of television daily, those who watched more than four hours a day had a 46 percent higher risk of death from all causes and an 80 percent increased risk for CVD-related death," the researchers said in a statement.
The researchers said this association held regardless of other independent and common cardiovascular disease risk factors, including smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, unhealthy diet, excessive waist circumference, and leisure-time exercises.
Researcher David Dunstan said the study focused specifically on television watching but the findings suggest that any prolonged sedentary behavior, such as sitting at a desk or in front of a computer, may pose a health risk.
"The human body was designed to move, not sit for extended periods of time," said Dunstan, head of the institute's physical activity laboratory in the division of metabolism and obesity.
"Technological, social, and economic changes mean that people don't move their muscles as much as they used to - consequently the levels of energy expenditure as people go about their lives continue to shrink.
"For many people, on a daily basis they simply shift from one chair to another -- from the chair in the car to the chair in the office to the chair in front of the television."
Dunstan said the findings applied not only to individuals who were overweight and obese, but also those of a healthy weight.
"Even if someone has a healthy body weight, sitting for long periods of time still has an unhealthy influence on their blood sugar and blood fats," he said.
"In addition to doing regular exercise, avoid sitting for prolonged periods and keep in mind to 'move more, more often'. Too much sitting is bad for health."
The researchers interviewed 3,846 men and 4,954 women aged 25 and older who underwent oral glucose-tolerance tests and provided blood samples so researchers could measure biomarkers such as cholesterol and blood sugar levels.
Participants were enrolled from 1999 and followed through 2006 and reported their television-viewing habits.

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My new blog.

I am gonna post everything into my new privated blog. created a year ago.

1. to prevent confusions of message given to whom
2.saving troubles to explain that it is not them.

i will put the link up soon(:

Hello

I was very angry today though i don't show it.

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And for guzheng, if you bloody hell just give me that stupid damn black face, please get out of the CCA room. IT just dampens my mood when you give that kind of buey song face in guzheng room. Please, everyone is tired or what. Cant you even have the freaking resilience to bear with it?

And why can't teachers write neatly? It always takes me 5 minutes to figure out those really small handwriting on the board..

And there is PE tomorrow, oh great waste study time for this kinda thing.

Today was Olevel marks distribution day.

I shall skip the judgement portion due to not knowing anything about the marks, but think it was okay?

Saw Jia Yi. Had a short chat and reading of her testimonial. And congratulations for the award once again.

Someone asked me: 'How would you feel when you step down from CCA?'

I don't really know what will happen on the day or what.

Juniors may cheer for it, since we were like so freakingly strict.

Got to take Sec 3s tomorrow and i am not prepared..

Anyway, just found out that i hate people who tell every single things to teachers like they knew everything. S**t them.

Yesterday's CCA selection was a good one.

The results were promising.

Went lunch with Xing Lin, Kelvin, Celia, Xin Ye, Lecia and Jeremy at SSC.

Xin Ye's recommendation, the food was quite nice and cheap.

Went back to CWP with Xing Lin and Kelvin while the others went back home and slack, chat.

I just realised i lost my physics TYS and i have got to go and buy one tomorrow.

The Immature Stupid Dumb Sec 1/2s

Lessons start.
PE to start off , Ms lim was saying it was a start of the impt year today and we started off we PE.
Ironic.

And i now know the names of those 2 damn idiots from robotics.

History project (currently rushing)

Tomorrow have CCA... cheers? I am tired already. But still gtg bear with it for 10 more months to relax from studies.

I sahn't be posting that much anyways, from now on

I finally found out from today's orientation how angelic or whatever you call (nice, etc) my juniors are.

Well, some may be irresponsible (let's exclude them kays?) but they were really working very hard today.

P/S: I did want to help, but i got a sore throat.

Alright, i will buy them a present when i graduate (random?)

Ok, no more craps, they are good. (guzheng ppl are never bad?)

Ok, back to orientation today, i got a total FCKING surprise on HOW IMMATURE, i shall repeat, IMMATURE, other CCAs people can be. Well, I shall not be so direct. I would just say they were from ROBOTICS.
Oooops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DID i hurt URbloody pride?????????????
Get a FREAKING LIFE OUT and STOP BARKING in our CCA BOOTH.
THINK it is FUNNY by criticising my CCA for being in the era for 3000 PLUS years and have to practise for 4 BLOODY years?!
I AM now FUCKING sorry, you're wrong. We practise for 3yrs 1month supposedly we go into guzheng in february and graduate in MARCH.
Where you get your bloody info? Oh sorry, you were barking, i forgot.
In the era for 3000 years isn't it good.

Technology causes people to be lazy, that's why the keep advancing it. So means you all lazy?? Oh ya, dogs only know how to act cute in front of the owner

get a bloody life and stop making my friends, and my juniors mood to be fcking dampened just becoz of your rubbish.

Happy New Year!

to all my BFFs, friends, family, maplebuddies

My aim for this year:
>get a good L1R5 grade
>get more hardworking
>play maple (random)

And Happy birthday to you(:

Thanks this ppl for sending their New Year greetings:
Xinying
Grace C.
Chung Ying
Jia Min
Xing Ling