Most previous research into the health effects of sitting typically has focused largely on sedentary activities such as watching TV.
For those kids, there tend to be behavioral reasons for their sleep problems, such as caffeine use, TV watching before bed or other issues such as anxiety.
They looked at all kinds of factors that can affect our weight such as TV watching, changes in physical activity levels, smoking and the consumption of all kinds of food and drink.
Sleepiness: Elderly people who frequently doze off during routine daily activities, such as reading or watching TV, have a greater chance of suffering a stroke than less sleepy individuals, according to a study in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
More than half of the 262 high school seniors who participated in the study were "excessively sleepy, " according to a commonly used scale that gauges how likely a person is to doze off during everyday activities such as reading, watching TV, or sitting in a traffic jam.
The author of the research paper Dr Lennert Veerman, from the Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost Effectiveness, told me they had adjusted their research to exclude people who were physically active while watching TV - such as running on a treadmill or rowing.
Apple is one of a number of companies rushing to reimagine TV by making it resemble watching video on devices such as computers and tablets.
When watching captivating content such as vast landscapes and scenes from nature on the Curved OLED TV, they will feel like they are surrounded by the beautiful scenery.
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The company, for example, has discussed new ways they could stream media companies' content, allowing a user to watch a video on a TV set, then pick up another device, such as a smartphone, and keep watching the video while on the move, one of the people familiar with the matter said.
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