Weight-Loss Tips and Tricks: Kill Your Television
When adults watch TV, they sit very still, which translate into burning up to 30 fewer calories an hour for the average size adult, notes Tom Farely, M.D., M.P.H., chair of department of community health sciences at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. Watching TV can also make you want to snack, thanks to all the commercials for junk food.