An active way to watch TV; another round of diet debates.

Time spent in front of the tube can count as a workout (providing you move as you view), and eating carbohydrates can also boost cardiovascular health (if they’re heart-friendly carbs).

That’s unconventional thinking these days when “carb” is sometimes treated as a four-letter word, and the glow of a TV screen spawns couch potatoes. But experts in diet and fitness at The Cleveland Clinic say that every minute of exercise — even marching in place as you watch TV — counts toward the hour a day that should be your goal (according to 2002 recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine). Simul- taneously, adopt a diet rich in…

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