Here\'s What All That Netflix and \'Couch Potatoing\' Is Doing to Your Body

This just in: being a couch potato, probably not very good for your health.????VO-lounge phone/logo/skeleton??It’s no secret that a sedentary lifestyle can lead to being overweight, but a new study published in the Journal of Public Health has found it may also be bad for your bones, especially for men.????VO-walking people??Researchers from Durham and Newcastle University in the UK tracked the habits of 214, 62-year-old men and women-????VO-hip spine??And scanned their hips and spines for bone density.????VO-walking/sitting tv??And investigators found that those who spent 150 minutes a week taking part in light physical activity had stronger bones than those who sat around more.????VO-elderly man couch??And for men who spent more than the average time each day being a couch potato, they had 22 percent lower spinal bone density.????VO-skeleton??According to Dr Karen Hind from the Durham’s Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences:????VO-’’??"What we now know is that being inactive is also associated with lower bone strength and an increased risk of osteoporosis.”????VO-skeleton walking/??And the researchers say that we should all try to hit 10,000 steps a day… that’s 5 miles for anyone trying to keep track.

????VO-skeleton walking??So what are you waiting for?

Get walking.??????