As healthy as a couch potato
New research suggests that a trip to the cinema might be equivalent to a light workout
Are you chronically slothful? Antisocial? Do you favour dim lights, confined spaces, and the unobtrusive company of like-minded strangers? If these flaws are compounded (or begotten) by chronic cinephilia, the results of a recent study conducted by researchers at University College London may yet absolve you in the eyes of your orthorexic critics.
Fifty-one test subjects were hooked up to sensors that monitored their cardiovascular activity over the course of a 128-minute movie. It transpired that, relative to the 26-man control group that was conscripted to read novels for the same duration, the moviegoers experienced elevated heart rates equivalent to the vascular tempi induced by light exercise. ..
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