“Each hour you spend watching TV increases your risk of death by 11%.” The average person has a 100% chance of dying, so if you watch an hour of TV after work today, you’ll increase that to a 111% chance. Watch out, your flatscreen is deadly!
This is just one of the shocking statistics in this recently released infographic by Onlineuniversity.net. It’s pink, it’s an infographic, it has meat cleavers scattered throughout… what’s not to like? It also contains some pretty scary statistics — they confirm that as a result of all the automation and improvements in technology, jobs now require more desk time and less running about than they did 50 years ago (at least in the US), and it’s affecting workers’ health. The more you sit, the less calories you burn. Sitting burns one calorie a minute (which means you’d have to sit for 95 minutes to burn off a medium-sized apple). It’s not surprising, then, that this would result in an average weight gain of 14.6 pounds (6.6 kilograms) a year.
To read the full, original article click on this link: How your desk job is killing you [Infographic] | memeburn
