Television

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A recent research study conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health indicates that watching too much television can significantly increase the risk of developing obesity and type 2 diabetes. Not surprisingly, another study carried out at the University of Rhode Island found that prolonged television watching decreases viewers’ sense of self-efficacy in maintaining personal health. But the more hours are taken before the motion pictures, the lower the physical states of mind become. Hardly any ones can recognize that TV will soon bring addiction and take viewers out of life in order to enter into the world of unrealistic state. A person can slip away into the fantasy world offered by television programs and effectively impede the pressures and anxieties of their own lives. Children that do nothing but sit in front of the television have no reason to use their imagination, hindering them from being able to interact with other children. The worse consequence of television on children is that it enables children to be not as physically active as they should be. According to many medical studies, in today's world we have more and more children becoming overweight, and I believe that comes from children doing nothing but watching television. Television has also limited the time families spend together. Families used to spend dinner at the dinner table telling each other how their days went and just communicating with each other. Now families just bring their dinner to where ever the television is. In some cases families don't even eat in the same room together, they each go to their separate rooms to watch television, barely even saying two words to each other. This problem seems to be getting worse as time goes on, with more and more parents actually buying televisions for their child before the child is even in kindergarten. The more violence we see on television the more it seems we become immune to the violence in the world.