You spend 17 years of your life on the sofa

We All love to relax on the sofa after a long day at work.

In fact, we love it so much that we spend 17 years of our lifethere, according to a new study.

Watching television takes up a massive 20 hours a week of sofatime for the average person.

Reading takes up seven hours and eating six hours.

At weekends we will spend a whopping 19 hours watching Saturdaynight and Sunday morning telly.

But Mary Brown, a psychologist at Robert Gordon University, saidwe should spend time doing nothing.

She said: "I mean literally doing nothing.

"To recharge our batteries we need to do nothing rather thanbeing distracted by watching …