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Research Check: will binge-watching TV increase your risk for Alzheimer's disease and diabetes?

  • Written by Josephine Chau, Lecturer in Prevention and Research Fellow in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageThis study didn't actually measure sitting and its relationship to inflammation - which causes disease. D.Reichardt/Flickr, CC BY

A recent study published in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise was reported in many media outlets as a bringer of “bad news” to television watchers, with the Herald Sun noting:

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