Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Is TV good for you?
Is watching TV a good thing? Or a bad thing? Watching TV obviously isn't the best thing to do to waste time, but it also affects heart disease. Researchers have found that every hour of TV watched per day increases your risk of dying by 18% from cardiovascular disease. Also, TV also increases your risk of dying from any other cause by 11 % and 9% is increased for the risk of dying from cancer. According to the examination by the American Heart association of the results of the Australian diabetes, obesity and lifestyle study, 87 people died from cardiovascular disease and 125 people died of cancer in just 6 years.
How can you prevent a greater risk of dying? There are several possiblities to live a healthier life, but an important aspect is to exercise. Instead of sitting at home and watching TV for several hours, people should exercise at least 3 times a week. TV commercials have changed a lot throughout the past years, and they now advertise more food commercials than before. With people watching TV, more and more food commercials are appearing which affect the eating styles of several people.
How can you prevent a greater risk of dying? There are several possiblities to live a healthier life, but an important aspect is to exercise. Instead of sitting at home and watching TV for several hours, people should exercise at least 3 times a week. TV commercials have changed a lot throughout the past years, and they now advertise more food commercials than before. With people watching TV, more and more food commercials are appearing which affect the eating styles of several people.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Influence of Television
Do you think that people are watching too much TV? What happens when people watch too much TV? Heavy Tv viewers get five symptoms that affect their daily life routines:
1.) When people get stressed, they use TV to calm or sooth them
2.) They feel like they have a loss of control as they are watching TV
3.) They get angry at themselves when they watch too much TV
4.) They get addicted to TV, and aren't able to help themselves, so instead they watch TV
5.) When TV watchers don't watch TV, or aren't allowed to watch TV, they feel miserable and aren't in a good mood.
Did you know that the average child will watch 8,000 murders on TV before finishing elementary school? By the age of eighteen, the average American has seen at least 200,000 acts of violence on TV, which includes 40,000 murders. Not only does TV have a violent and emotional effect, many people say that TV is also a reason for the high percentage of obese people in America. A 1991 study showed that there is an average of 200 junk food ads in four hours of children's saturday morning cartoon shows. Children aren't the only people that get affected by TV. Studies have shown that one-third of American adults are also overweight. According to an American Journal of Public Health study, an adult who watches three hours of TV is far more likely to be obese then a person that watches one hour of TV. What do you think that people can do to become healthier? Is TV a big affect of the percentage of obese people in this country?
1.) When people get stressed, they use TV to calm or sooth them
2.) They feel like they have a loss of control as they are watching TV
3.) They get angry at themselves when they watch too much TV
4.) They get addicted to TV, and aren't able to help themselves, so instead they watch TV
5.) When TV watchers don't watch TV, or aren't allowed to watch TV, they feel miserable and aren't in a good mood.
Did you know that the average child will watch 8,000 murders on TV before finishing elementary school? By the age of eighteen, the average American has seen at least 200,000 acts of violence on TV, which includes 40,000 murders. Not only does TV have a violent and emotional effect, many people say that TV is also a reason for the high percentage of obese people in America. A 1991 study showed that there is an average of 200 junk food ads in four hours of children's saturday morning cartoon shows. Children aren't the only people that get affected by TV. Studies have shown that one-third of American adults are also overweight. According to an American Journal of Public Health study, an adult who watches three hours of TV is far more likely to be obese then a person that watches one hour of TV. What do you think that people can do to become healthier? Is TV a big affect of the percentage of obese people in this country?
Video about the history of TV
This video is about the history of TV, and the discoveries that Leonardo da Vinci as well as Isaac Newton made. It talks about how color was added to a TV, and how people discovered that when a white light is shown through a glass prism, the rainbow colors appear. Also, we find out in this video how Leonardo da Vinci discovered that the human eye continues to see an image a fraction of a second after it has disappeared, which is applied to our TV's today. What do you think about this video?
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