Everything old is new again in TV-land, as it so often is. Last week we learned that kids still watch more television than anything else, and this week a new study comes out confirming what many of us have long suspected: too much TV can rot your mind — if you’re over 50. It’s like the 80s never left!
Now, to be fair, it’s all couched in the careful language of science, so technically it’s a decline in verbal memory that is associated with watching a specific amount of TV over time. But the study’s authors, a pair of British researchers, write, “Our results provide preliminary data to suggest that television viewing for more than 3.5 hours per day could contribute to cognitive decline.” In other words, if you posses an aging brain, you’d do well to limit your time in front of the TV — or telly, as the researchers probably called it.
