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"Research suggests that turning off the TV can make not just a difference, but a meaningful one, in terms of weight loss. Curious, University of Vermont researchers tracked the viewing habits and movement of 36 overweight or obese men and women using monitoring equipment attached to each television set and movement-tracking armbands. Based on each person&amp;#039;s TV viewing habits, which were right on par with the national norm, they chose to cut 20 random participants&amp;#039; TV viewing time per week in half (16 participants continued to watch the same amount of TV as always). A special monitor attached to each of the TVs would turn them off when the participants had reached their weekly limit (even if they were right in the middle of a show\u2014ouch). Though the change in lifestyle didn&amp;#039;t affect sleeping or exercise habits, the freed time to do anything but watch TV resulted in an additional average calorie burn of 120 calories per day. That added up over time is certainly not nothing. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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