How much television you watch on a daily
basis? First of all, watching TV is a 'passive picturing' activity. Your brain is just processing what other brains created. Second, I've been hard put to count very many 'affirming' comments on the average program. What you 'put in' your brain tends to 'put out.' One reported daily average in the United States is 4 hours of TV viewing per day; 3
hours a day in Australia. Mostly I watch some TV when the Olympics are playing. I love to watch brains do their thing in real time. Four hours a day? Never! Recently I ran across the results of a six-year study
of 8,800 Australian men and women (over age 25 with no history of heart
disease) that was reported in the journal Circulation.
Those who watched more than 4 hours of TV a day had an 80% increased risk of
death from cardiovascular disease over the 6-year time period as compared with
people who watched 2 hours or less each day. The bottom line conclusion of the
study? Too much TV is bad for your health. You may want to check out an article
by Mark Stibich, PhD, on the topic.
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