Too much TV may mean earlier death

[kazuya]

Watching too much television can make you feel a bit brain-dead. According to a new study, it might also take years off your life.

The more time you spend watching TV, the greater your risk of dying at an earlier age -- especially from heart disease, researchers found.

The study followed 8,800 adults with no history of heart disease for more than six years. Compared to those who watched less than two hours of TV per day, people who watched four hours or more were 80 percent more likely to die from heart disease and 46 percent more likely to die from any cause. All told, 284 people died during the study.

Too much TV may mean earlier death - CNN.com

[SBfreak]

Watching too much television can make you feel a bit brain-dead. According to a new study, it might also take years off your life.

What about the computer?

[Mihai]

About the competer i think the stats are even higher.

[slikrapid]

they forgot to mention the dumbing-down effect tv has, behavioral influence (stress/fear/anxiety/...) & manipulations on subconscious levels by the content creators (advertisements, select imagery & symbols, suggestive contents,...), mainstream controlled information flow and so on

interestingly i didn't notice any correlations with computer monitors, could this mean that the very nature of contents delivered through tv is causing the most damage, not the (core) technology itself

on the other hand in this thread:

http://www.sb-innovation.de/showthre...threadid=18157

we see an expected future trend in creating more contents for tv by coupling it with internet, which again will lead to people spending even more time in front of the tv set

Television isn't lethal in and of itself; the real problem appears to be that sitting is the "default position" for TV viewing,

Prolonged watching of television equals a lot of sitting, which invariably means there's an absence of muscle movement," Dunstan says. If your muscles stay inactive for too long, it can disrupt your metabolism,

Reading or doing homework doesn't seem to be associated with risk factors as much as television viewing,

"We're not sure if it's the sedentary behavior itself or the other things you're doing during television viewing, like snacking."

notice how they are unsure what is the reason for adverse health effects, and this part gives another clue that the sitting/snacking reasons aren't a good enough explanation - it furthermore points in the direction of the tv aired contents


another thing is that even if you don't watch too much tv, chances are you live in an urban area (known for its abundance of negative energy concentration) or close enough to be under the influence of different artificially broadcast signals & frequencies (mobile networks, wireless, radio, electric fields, digital & analog broadcasts,...) which probably won't be beneficial to your health, rather the opposite, as seen in this example:

Adverse Health Effects from the Operation of Digital Broadcast Television Stations (DVB‐T)

in Germany, analog broadcast television stations have gradually been switching to digital broadcast signals since 2003. This switchover first took place in metropolitan areas. In those areas, however, the RF exposures in public places as well as at home continued to increase at the same time. As a result, the continuing declining health status of children, adolescents, and adults in urban areas could not be attributed to any single cause. On May 20, 2006, two digital broadcast television stations went on the air in the Hessian Rhoen area (Heidelstein, Kreuzberg), which until recently had enjoyed rather low mobile phone radiation exposure levels. Within a radius of more than 20 km, the following symptoms that occurred abruptly were reported: constant headaches, pressure in the head, drowsiness, sleep problems, inability to think clearly, forgetfulness, nervous tensions, irritability, tightness in the chest, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, depressive mood, total apathy, loss of empathy, burning skin, inner burning, leg weakness, pain in the limbs, stabbing pain in various organs, weight increase.

Birds had fled the area. Cats had turned phlegmatic and hardly ever went into the garden. One child committed suicide; a second child tried doing it. Over time the same unbearable symptoms showed up in other locations—most recently in Bamberg and Aschaffenburg on November 25, 2008. Physicians accompanied affected people to areas where there was no DVB‐T reception (valleys, behind mountain ranges) and witnessed how these people became symptom‐free only after a short period of time.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12596

[Instab]

good grief, every few weeks a new study comes out. who cares.

back in the 70s it was a 'fact' that athletes should eat much meat. today it's a 'fact' that they should not eat so much meat but more pasta ...

[SBfreak]

Each man has his own metabolism.No one knows what good for him but I can say that computers and TV aren't good for man.(the effects/not that I don't like em)

[saebrtooth]

What about the computer?

I think its like atrophy of the mind in some cases - so called couch potatoe.

But there is more opportnity for interaction when using the computer so we can have an active mind, but we also need time out for exercise

[Snitlev]

Who earlier dies is longer death

[saebrtooth]

not unless you quickly come back as a pig :)

[whateveritakes]

my brain is now half dead anyway... most functions are now sort of dis-functioning... i certainly think 50 gigs of DDRX ram to plug-in would help... but the things I couldn't find the slut.