Watching TV for five hours may affect mobility in elderly 

Older people who watch more than five hours of television a day and indulge in three or lesser hours of physical activity in a week were at more than three-fold higher risk of being unable to walk or having difficulty walking, researchers warned.

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What findings say?

• The findings showed that people who watched five or more hours of television per day.
• In addition,had a 65 per cent greater risk of reporting a mobility disability.
• Compared with those who watched television for less than two hours per day.
• Television viewing in the evening may be especially detrimental to health.
• Because it is not broken up with short bouts of activity, compared with sitting during the day.
• Television viewing is a very potent risk factor for disability in older age.
• Younger people might be able to get away with sitting for long periods because they are physiologically more robust.
• But after age 50, prolonged sitting, and especially prolonged television viewing, becomes particularly hazardous.
  

  Experiment:

• For the study,the team analysed data which kept track of men and women aged 50 to 71 from six states.
• In addition, two metropolitan areas, nearly 30 per cent of the previously healthy participants reported a mobility disability.
• Furthermore,having difficulty walking or being unable to walk at all.