Kill Your TV

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the physical effects of television on adults and children: obesity, couch potato“ism”, and overall laziness. The www.turnoffyourtv.com website states the following:

“In the life of children, watching television is a significant sensory experience. Many children easily spend more time with the box than they do with any other form of entertainment.”5

With that in mind, there can be no doubt that children spend more time with the television than doing other activities, such as talking, reading, and playing, which all promote increased social and physical attributes. Television is the usurper of our time to improve ourselves.6 The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry agrees, stating that “television deters the development of imagination insofar as it obstructs the time taken out for recreation.”7

Although laziness plays a major role in the consumption of television, mindless behavior finishes a close second. Some people talk about the “escape from reality�...