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New research that binge-watching television can adversely your health. Binge-viewing excessive watching of back-to-back TV shows in a single sitting. It has prevalent across the world with the advent of online streaming and downloading services. Researchers from the University of Michigan in the USA and the Leuven School for Mass Communication Research in Belgium 423 people aged 18-25 on their TV-viewing habits. Their research that binge-viewing greatly sleep patterns. Co-author Professor Jan Van den Bulck said: "Our study that binge-viewing prevalent in young adults and that it may harmful to their sleep."

The researchers participants about their sleep quality, levels of fatigue and prevalence of insomnia. They also about their frequency of binge-watching programs on televisions, laptops and desktop computers. Over 80 per cent of the participants binge-watching, with 20 per cent doing so several times a week. Binge-watchers 98 per cent more likely to poor sleep quality. A researcher said: "Bingeable TV shows have plots that keep the viewer to the screen. We think they become intensely with the content and may thinking about it when they to go to sleep." She said this people problems when trying to sleep.