Study: TV and Couch Potatoes Really Do Go Together
From the “Dept. of Does This Really Require a Study to Know?” we learn this:
A study of low-income housing residents has documented that the more television people say they watched, the less active they were, researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and colleagues report.
“Clearly the more time a person spends watching television the less time they have to be physically active, and in many lower income communities, other factors might have influenced the study participants’ decisions to spend time watching television,” said the paper’s lead author, Gary Bennett, PhD, of Dana-Farber’s Center for Community-Based Research and the Harvard School of Public Health.
Not only does the report confirm the painfully obvious, they appeared to have gone out of their way to play up every possible stereotype know to man:
The study involved 486 low-income housing residents in Boston. The study participants tended to be black or Hispanic, older, and female. Two-thirds were overweight or obese, 37 percent had less than a high-school education.
Yes that’s right, we now have proof that poor fat people who watch a lot of TV aren’t physically active. Wow, I’m stunned!
tags: obesity
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August 10th, 2006 at 5:40 am
No way!! Next, you’ll be telling me Liberace was gay!!
August 10th, 2006 at 7:42 am
Evidently that would require an expensive study to know.