According to research conducted by Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute’s Professor David Dunstan, watching more than four hours of television a day can lead to an increase in cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, and non-CVD/noncancer mortality in Australian adults.

The study, which was recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, found that there was:

• an 11 per cent increased risk of death from all causes (of death)

• a 9 per cent increased risk of cancer death; and

• an 18 per cent increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) related death.

Going slowly doesn’t mean you are sedentary 24/7. So click off the tube and jump into life, grooving to the power of slow!