Wouldn’t I result in a lot of time blocks where I’m falsely idle (i.e. sitting on your couch drinking piña coladas while being a couch potato)?
A screen is not just a screen, though. The one-way interaction between TV and the couch potato is far different than an absorbing Scrabble play-off with a friend on a mobile phone.
Meanwhile, in a country that is among the fattest in Europe, the number of couch potatoes apparently continues to grow.
The bottom line: couch potatoes may applaud the exercise naysayers but the bulk of research suggests that workouts make us physically and perhaps mentally healthier.
Is there a couch potato gene that causes lazy behavior?
Jim spends a lot of time watching TV every day. He is a couch potato!
The news will provide encouragement for those couch potatoes to start taking exercise.
Last night, while acting as a perfect couch potatoe at home, suddenly I realized my dog was making some strange noise.
I was a couch potato in my junior high days.
"It was just sitting on the bottom and nibbling on the sugar like a couch potato," Hackett says.
They were relatively healthy, but certainly 'couch potatoes' would fit as a label.
Only a few decades ago the prevailing worry was that television, the reigning medium at the time, was creating a generation of unimaginative couch potatoes, if not intellectual vegetables.
As for "semi-couch potato" Stanton, who'd been in the aerobic group, he says he didn't notice any improvement in his memory.
One of those "couch potatoes" who volunteered for the study was Gregory Stanton, a 66-year-old semi-retired college professor.
Granted, I'm far more obsessed with this topic than the average couch potato.
Steve Bird and his colleagues in the department of sport and exercise science at Canterbury Christ Church University College in Kent reached these conclusions after putting 56 couch potatoes through an 18-week course of daily walks.
Male couch potatoes dragged to the film against their will may find some consolation.
The OED says "couch potato" originated as American slang, meaning "a person who spends leisure time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes."
On the other hand, some well-known canine couch potatoes include the Bulldog, Basset Hound, Chow Chow, Rottweiler and Saint Bernard.
If I wanted to I could just be a couch potato for days on end.
I admit I could be a couch potato sometimes.
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