I just published @Netflix Isn’t Giving You Cancer - why you shouldn’t worry too much about TV and #cancer #epitwitter #healthhttps://link.medium.com/4EfotQIM7T
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This week's blog was a truly amazing one. The study looked at TV watching AS A PROXY FOR SEDENTARY BEHAVIOUR and found that it was associated with a (tiny) increased risk of cancer
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Somehow, that was transformed into "
@NetflixANZ is giving you cancer", which is a hilariously nonsensical misreading of the research1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Added to that, the relative risk sounded scary, but this was young-onset colorectal cancer, which is pretty uncommon The absolute risk was TINY
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Based on this study, for every 125 women who tripled their TV-watching time, you'd expect to see about 1 case of cancer That's not a lot at all
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Blog goes into more detail, read away!
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