美国癌症学会1992~2009年一项对14.6万人的调查发现,比起不爱看电视的女性,爱看电视的患癌几率高10%。德国雷根斯堡大学也进行过一项类似研究,发现每天坐着多看两小时电视,会使患结肠癌的风险增加8%,子宫癌风险增加10%。美国医学研究所流行病学部对一万余名参与者进行了为期10年的研究,结果发现,看1小时电视,心脏病死亡风险增加7%,每天 A survey of 146,000 people from 1992 to 2009 by the American Cancer Society found that the odds of having cancer were 10% higher than those who did not love television. A similar study conducted by the University of Regensburg in Germany found that sitting more than two hours a day on television would increase the risk of colon cancer by 8% and the risk of uterine cancer by 10%. A decade-long study of more than 10,000 participants at the Institute of Epidemiology at the Medical Research Institute found that watching 1-hour television increased the risk of death from heart disease by 7%