Health study: Stop couch surfing and you’ll eat less junk food
Simply getting your butt off the couch means you’ll munch fewer cookies.
That’s the finding of a new Northwestern Medicine study, which shows that simply changing one bad habit has a domino effect on others. Knock down your sedentary leisure time and you’ll reduce junk food and saturated fat intake because you’re no longer glued to the TV and noshing. It’s a two-for-one benefit because the behaviours are closely related.
The study, published in Archives of Internal Medicine, investigated the most effective way to spur people to change common bad health habits: eating too much saturated fat and not enough fruits and vegetables. And spending too much leisure time in sedentary activity while not getting enough physical activity.
It found that the most effective way to rehab a delinquent lifestyle requires two key behaviour changes — cutting time spent in front of a TV or computer screen, and eating more fruits and vegetables.
“Just cutting two lifestyle changes has a big overall effect and people don’t get overwhelmed,” said lead author Bonnie Spring, a professor of preventative medicine.
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