"Two, maybe three."
"Two or three hours in a whole week?" the lady asked.
"Yes."
"Thank you ma'am...."
And It's Not Just Your Brain
Recently, results of a large number of studies lasting from six to 10 years suggest that for every two hours people watch TV, they incur a 20% increase in their risk of developing Type-2 diabetes.
A number of other health problems including obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol -- death at an earlier age, surely -- the more TV a person watches, the greater the risk of all of the above.
The minimal brain exercise coupled with sedentary lifestyle; the sitting and simply watching...is far more damaging than say, sitting and reading, or driving; that seems at least partially related to high-fructose corn syrup, sugar, fat, salt -- the processed "junk food" often consumed as swarms of commercials with pretty people imploring you to just go for it massage your buttons.
So What's This about Resurrecting Hope?
People sometimes respond to my articles with variations of: "Lots of nice words, but words don't do anything. We need action. People need to DO something!"
A friend of ours with young children has been told repeatedly by kindergarten teachers: "If there's one major thing you can do to help your child, it's turn off the TV."
Well there it is. If there's one major thing we can do to help salvage remains of our "constitutional republic," it's the same thing -- turn off the TV. Americans who care enough about their country to really learn about their country need to just turn it OFF -- kick TV and start getting more exercise in parts of the brain that distinguish us from animals.
Those parts of the brain are all that stand between life on Earth, and corporate profit until death do us part.
Something as technically simple as flicking a switch could benefit us more than anything else we might do. People I know who have kicked TV, when exposed to TV again, often respond with such as: "How could I have spent so much time doing nothing?" And, "TV is insulting."
Is it merely coincidence that ascension of TV in America so closely parallels America's descent into massive infrastructure decay, perpetual unemployment, exploding poverty, maldistribution of wealth? Americans watch more TV than any other citizens on Earth. TV is obviously a drag-down drug Americans would benefit greatly by using less of. Another no brainer?
But it's a full-blown addiction epidemic most people shrug off -- even though it's so obvious that citizens lose big-time when "democracy" becomes a spectator sport. And addiction usually involves ever-increasing doses to approach satisfaction.
"Two or three hours in a whole week?" the lady asked.
"Yes."
"Thank you ma'am...."
Recently, results of a large number of studies lasting from six to 10 years suggest that for every two hours people watch TV, they incur a 20% increase in their risk of developing Type-2 diabetes.
A number of other health problems including obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol -- death at an earlier age, surely -- the more TV a person watches, the greater the risk of all of the above.
The minimal brain exercise coupled with sedentary lifestyle; the sitting and simply watching...is far more damaging than say, sitting and reading, or driving; that seems at least partially related to high-fructose corn syrup, sugar, fat, salt -- the processed "junk food" often consumed as swarms of commercials with pretty people imploring you to just go for it massage your buttons.
So What's This about Resurrecting Hope?
People sometimes respond to my articles with variations of: "Lots of nice words, but words don't do anything. We need action. People need to DO something!"
A friend of ours with young children has been told repeatedly by kindergarten teachers: "If there's one major thing you can do to help your child, it's turn off the TV."
Well there it is. If there's one major thing we can do to help salvage remains of our "constitutional republic," it's the same thing -- turn off the TV. Americans who care enough about their country to really learn about their country need to just turn it OFF -- kick TV and start getting more exercise in parts of the brain that distinguish us from animals.
Those parts of the brain are all that stand between life on Earth, and corporate profit until death do us part.
Something as technically simple as flicking a switch could benefit us more than anything else we might do. People I know who have kicked TV, when exposed to TV again, often respond with such as: "How could I have spent so much time doing nothing?" And, "TV is insulting."
Is it merely coincidence that ascension of TV in America so closely parallels America's descent into massive infrastructure decay, perpetual unemployment, exploding poverty, maldistribution of wealth? Americans watch more TV than any other citizens on Earth. TV is obviously a drag-down drug Americans would benefit greatly by using less of. Another no brainer?
But it's a full-blown addiction epidemic most people shrug off -- even though it's so obvious that citizens lose big-time when "democracy" becomes a spectator sport. And addiction usually involves ever-increasing doses to approach satisfaction.
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