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By refusing to act, we are creating generations of couch potatoes with high cholesterol and resultant heart problems.

Not exact matches

Sure, there are pieces that wouldn't look out of place in West Elm, but then there are furnishings tailor - made for the middle - aged man cave, such as a massive black leather sofa with built - in surround sound, a power - reclining feature, phone - charging ports and Bluetooth connectivity to allow couch potatoes to play music from their smartphones.

To find out the researchers rounded up a group of 500 Swiss and German study subjects and presented them with a series of questions about how much they worked, how exhausted they felt, and how much guilt they experienced after indulging in some couch potato time.

When we get home we plop down on the couch with a bag of potato chips and forget about the unpleasant truth of someone eating pud pies to stay off hunger pains.

One night, I was sitting on my couch watching Seinfeld in my underwear, nursing a hangover, snacking on a big plate of nachos topped with fried «chick» n» and sweet potato fries dipped in chipotle «mayo,» and I had what must have been a tofu - induced out - of - body experience: I got a good, solid look at myself and realized that this was just not a healthy way to live.

Traditional white cake with vanilla buttercream reminds me of when we celebrate birthdays, weddings, showers or even when we're couch potatoes in the comfort of our own homes, when we feel like a bit of sweet, delicious indulgence.

Twitter went absolutely wild, with Tiger Woods leading the charge against couch potatoes having the power to determine the outcomes of golf tournaments.

If that Welfare cap doesn't come down pretty quick then some hardworking family earners slogging their guts out for a pittance, with 2 jobs on zero hour contracts, of # 20 000 a year or less, is going to be feeling pretty miffed that some couch potato is on # 21K and s / he is only on 20k, or less.

«If you compare a person who is 30 pounds overweight but physically active with someone who is thin but a coach potato, you'll find the thin couch potato has a higher risk of premature death and of some chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension,» Franke says.

«Even among those who fulfill daily recommendations for physical activity, lengthy periods of sedentary behavior have been associated with early morbidity and mortality, leading to the «active couch potato» paradigm.

Far from being heavyweight couch potatoes, WIMPs are turning out to be lively flyweights with a mass of 10 GeV — just a tenth of that expected.

Together with a team of leading experts in the cycling industry, TheActive has developed a three - week programme to help you go from couch potato to the wheel deal during the duration of The Tour De France.

Consistency is far superior to a short period of intense dedication, followed by another 3 - month date with the couch and potato chips (admit it, we've all been there!).

Published in Archives of Internal Medicine this week, a new study analyzed 200,000 people and found that prolonged time spent on our derrieres may contribute to an untimely demise, in part because it increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.Specifically, researchers found that adults who sit for 11 or more hours a day (add up your driving time, office time and «Real Housewives» couch potato time) have a 40 percent increased risk of dying in the next three years compared with those who sit less than four hours a day.

I was an old TV couch potato with a beer in one hand and an 18 inch pizza in the other and would make 5 or 6 trips to the fridge even in the middle of the night to eat what ever I could find.

Consider this, she said: a body builder without an ounce of fat on him, and a couch potato who is overweight with a large belly (indicating central obesity or visceral fat), can have the same height and weight, and therefore the same BMI.

With all the options of exercise programs and / or exercises, there has got to be something that might tweak even a committed couch potato's interest.

Whether you're a passionate fan with a closet full of team gear, a girly girl who refuses to wear team logos, or a couch potato cheering on your team from the comfort of your pjs, there's a stylish way to support your favorite team!

It's that time of year again: Puffer coats come out, TV streaming services shame Snuggie - clad couch potatoes with the question «are you (really, still) watching?»

There's nothing worse than a lazy couch potato, but with a sports dating site you're far more likely to meet the man of your dreams who likes to keep in shape.

And as mop - topped teenage couch potato Garth (again drawn from life — this time based on Dana's brother Brad), Carvey was teamed with Mike Myers in a flawless on - going parody of cheap cable - access television.

«I like to watch,» Chauncey says, who spends his whole life in front of a T.V., just as earth must be one big program to god, a couch potato himself, in the sense that all he does is observe the human struggle with the same indifference as the idiot gardener.

It was a relief to see Seth Rogen transition out of the normal «pot - smoking couch potato» character into a cool and quirky parent, with the added Rogen movie analogy one liners.

It's not a stretch to see the bespectacled Halliday, who Rylance invests with an affecting Wozniakian introversion, as another of the master director's onscreen surrogates — a gentle couch potato as obsessed with»80s touchstones as Spielberg and his film - brat contemporaries were with their own seminal, formative big - screen experiences.

On the other hand, defined goals can help those of us who might otherwise become TV watching, junk food eating couch potatoes, with nothing more -LSB-...]

Within the last year I started with the Couch potato portfolio of TD e-funds (25 % each of Canadian Bond Index, U.S. Index, International Index, Canadian Index), for both my RRSP & non registered investments.

The first is whether the Couch Potato strategy is effective with portfolios of several hundred thousand dollars or more.

From my correspondence with the kind of readers who gravitate to a «Couch Potato» portfolio so often seen in the pages of MoneySense, a typical all - equity TFSA would have grown from the original $ 25,500 contribution room to somewhere in the low $ 30,000 range at the end of 2013.

Q: I've had a Couch Potato portfolio with four ETFs for a number of years.

Instead of having received a big inheritance recently, let's say it arrived several years ago and you used it to build a Couch Potato portfolio with a mix 60 % stocks and 40 % bonds.

Your editors at MoneySense are almost always going to steer investors into a reliable but boring Couch Potato portfolio of a few low - fee exchange - traded funds and advise you to resist the temptation to jump in and out of individual stocks (with the exception of sticking with our All - Star stock picks).

Now, with regard to our prior exchange of information on CM, RIMM and POT, I have read on Canadian Couch Potato (and this blog too, somewhere, I think) that TD has been used with great satisfaction.

An investor building a small Global Couch Potato portfolio could use VXC in place of separate US and international holdings: that would reduce trading costs and complexity, as well as adding a bit more diversification with a slice of emerging markets.

In the spirit of holiday giving, Justin Bender, portfolio manager with PWL Capital in Toronto, has approached me with an offer for Canadian Couch Potato readers.

First, the five model portfolios seem well designed on the equity side, with a good mix of Canadian, US, international and emerging markets, as well as REITs — very similar to what you'd see in my Complete Couch Potato.

If you're an index investor using ETFs, I recommend going for true global diversification in the equity portion of your portfolio with 1/3 Canadian, 1/3 U.S. and 1/3 international stocks, the allocation for our Global Couch Potato portfolio.

Applying a somewhat spicier approach to the original three - asset - class Couch Potato portfolio, with annual changes, resulted in average annual returns of 10.6 %.

In practice, if you're using the Complete Couch Potato, you may want to simply go with 10 % XEF and 5 % XEC instead of 15 % VXUS.

Similarly, applying this method to a global portfolio with four asset classes and rebalancing monthly, would have generated gains of 12.1 % per year, beating the classic Couch Potato by 2.1 percentage points per year and with only a little more volatility than the regular version.

It uses the same indexes as the classic Couch Potato with the addition of the EAFE index as the proxy for international stocks.

After all, banks already offered index mutual funds with fees in that neighbourhood, and the TD e-Series Funds are dramatically cheaper: you can build the Global Couch Potato for a total cost of just 0.37 %.

John also ran the same simulation with the trusty old Global Couch Potato — which includes just three or four funds — and the results fell right in the middle: an annualized return of 6.40 %.

It contains a proven strategy for achieving outstanding returns, and the advisor has agreed to share it with readers of Canadian Couch Potato: Recently, a small group of investors has unlocked the secret to investing success.

Here is part two of my interview with Scott Burns, the newspaper columnist and Chief Investment Strategist at AssetBuilder who created the original Couch Potato portfolio more than 20 years ago.

He's identified nine factors that contribute to an investor's long - term success, and he's agreed to share them with readers of Canadian Couch Potato.

But the market has exploded to include dozens of new products that have nothing to do with Couch Potato investing: some add leverage (which doubles your potential returns, but also your potential losses), promise inverse returns (they go up when the assets they track go down), while others are actively managed.

That's why I'm uneasy when I receive e-mails from readers who tell me how pleased they are with the results of Couch Potato portfolios they've built in the last couple of years.

An investor can now build a Couch Potato portfolio with an annual management fee of just 0.12 %, less than half what it cost just a few years ago.

I made the shift from equities to an ETF / managed fund primarily because equities require significant research I didn't have the time for (hence the «couch potato» investment in Cadence and Vanguards ETF), and because with a small amount of funds available, regular investments in the stock market would lead to significant brokerage fees or very few investments per year.

Yet I get a lot of emails that go something like this: «I'm setting up a Couch Potato portfolio, but with interest rates rising, I don't want to put too much in bonds right now.