TV Does More Damage to Your Children Than You Ever Imagined

re: TV Does More Damage to Your Children Than You Ever Imagined

Désirée — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:08:32 GMT

What has not been addressed in the subject of children watching tell-a-vision is the overload of information on the brains of children. This really boils down to 'garbage in, garbage out'. Also, there is a lot of violence going on in cartoons. Television, a mainstream mouthpiece, is a very insidious way of brainwashing. In children's programs, more often than we think, there subliminal messages are hidden: in the middle of a film one frame suddenly will leap out with a text like LOVE IS HATE, or SEX IS FUN.
The eyes perceives these messages, the brain receives them. And even though the translation towards consciousness is not immediately, the seed has been sown. Just like a Wal-Mart baby toy spoke the words I HATE YOU in between ocean sounds (http://www.prisonplanet.com/i_hate_you_baby_toy.html)

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nanciesweb — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:01:01 GMT

After years of having satellite, it became difficult to turn the TV off, especially in the winter when it's -5 degrees F. When we got rid of the satellite connection, we had bought a few DVDs. At first, the kids would watch all the time, but after seeing the videos around 100 times or so, they got bored of it and started to do things on their own.

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Pat Ormsby — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:40:26 GMT

Oh the tragic irony of this! My husband, the first in his family to get diabetes, is zonked out in front of the TV, which he keeps on constantly. I sit fifteen feet away from the tube with ear plugs at my controlled-radiation Mac. Poor guy got in the habit of watching TV when he was still able to work as a designer. (BTW, the others in his family got diabetes or other metabolic problems when cell phone service spread to their area.) The effects are insidious. The cause of so many of our problems is so right in front of our faces that we can't see it. Explanations abound for the explosive increase in allergies in Japan in recent years. A big increase was noted to start from the generation growing up in the 1960s, and it was postulated that excessive cleanliness was to blame, due to paving of streets. However, when I asked several classes of older students what the biggest changes were that occurred in the 60s, in each case they mentioned the TV. Everyone would gather in the home of anyone who had one and spend hours watching it. I developed a horrendous allergy to cedar pollen when I lived in a second-story apartment with power lines outside. My old passport photo looks like I was crying. Today we have "extremely high levels" of cedar pollen, according to my husband's TV, and he's sneezing, but guess what, folks--I'm not! For the first time in my life I am grateful for my allergies, because they alert me to when and where I'm getting irradiated. It is more ubiquitous than you think! And it has been for years. (If I'm stuck with the irradation, EFT makes it bearable.)

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alan2345 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:26:23 GMT

A lot of TV of any type is not good. But I'd be curious to know if they can compare the effects of CRT type tv's to LCD, plasma, etc. To me (looking to get new TV) CRT TV's have sort of a hypnotic effect that maybe the others don't. Because CRT's are basically strobe lights. But they're too fast to consciously see the flash. But hypnotic means very still, and over a long period of time that would not be good.
Just a thought.

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katherine_mayfield_1981 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:55:08 GMT

I will try to keep this pithy. The reason so many children watch television is not just because some parents are too tired and/or too lazy, but because it's safe. You can keep an eye on them without having to worry about some pedophile snatching them while they're riding their bikes (in reference to the Missouri kidnappings).

I do not believe television is evil as Mercola believes, but I do believe it can become an insidious influence if we allow it to. I believe it is more important to focus not only on how much we watch, but what we watch as well. Mercola never addresses this issue.

I have gotten hours of laughter and enjoyment from watching "I Love Lucy", and isn't laughter something Mercola is always expounding the benefits of?

As long as television doesn't become bigger than life, I don't see any reason why it cannot be an enjoyable part of life, a fun way to spend a small percentage (less than 25% at least, I'd say) of your free time.

One note:  the Internet can be just as addictive as television.  We just need to get away from being in front of a screen, any screen, all the time.

I will admit that all the inspiration for the stories I write have come from my own life experience and real people I have met, not from the scripted lives I watch onscreen (though I am sure the ideas for many of the characters and situations have come not solely from the imaginations of their creators).

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Matilda_203 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:16:26 GMT

I think back to my childhood memories of playing dress-up, planting flowers, backyard ball games, riding bikes, roller skating, building treehouses, catching crayfish in a local creek, watching cloud bunnies hop across the sky, and finding the most beautiful bouquet of weeds for my mom. I wonder what will be the memories of children who watch TV all day?

One option to help "wean" the kids whose bedroom TV needs to be removed is to replace it with a radio or CD player and introduce them to some good music. My son loves- of all things- Japanese Flutes.
They sound like "whale song" to me. But as a tweenager, I think he made a good, relaxing choice!

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Sean Uisce — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:08:11 GMT

I could be wrong on this, but I read once somewhere that TV simultaneously triggers two brain rhythms normally experienced separately: those associated with learning and deep sleep. What an amazing boon for advertisers - a captive audience who actually don't realise they're asleep and being told what to think, feel, desire etc!

A great song that educates re insidious nature of TV, is Dana Lyons "TV God" from the album "Cows with guns: The Cow Pie Nation Compilation"... very funny but right on the mark.

But perhaps the simplest way of encapsulating television's dangers is to remember that the letters TV actually stand for Thought Vanquisher!

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mmc88121 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:38:19 GMT

This does not even mention the more obvious effects of television. THe "I want it " syndrome. That I have heard from many children especially around the holiday season. Also with all the negative images no wonder there is an increase in violence in countries that have a lot of television viewing.

mmc88121

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Carrasquillo — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:20:33 GMT

My question refers to the elimination of other variables in assessment whether or not TV could be used as a tool. Are all these effects stemming from advertising (such as higher chance of smoking, debt, poor food choices) or are they a side effect of the actual act of watching the TV? Could TV be used as an instrument to promote learning (all be it, most of today's programming are loaded with commercials designed to influence). For myself my family does not have a TV, but we do have a computer and frequently watch movies, will children have the same correlation of problems with network TV taken out of the equation? Any comments appreciated.
-William

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PepperR23 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:42:33 GMT

It is almost impossible to find wholesome, healthy, uplifting programs on television today. If it is on a local broadcasting program, every five minutes or so there is an advertisement for a pharmaceutical. The drug companies have no thought for what children might be absorbing from the constant bombardment of "Cialis" commercials and others like them. The news broadcasts are full of violence and mis-information to the point of which after viewing them, you become confused and depressed. A return to good old-fashioned values and a promotion of healthy life-styles is needed.

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Josh Rubin — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:21:23 GMT

Today when kids come home from school, video games, the computer or the TV are what they turn to. Not that I am that old, but when I was a kid, we used to come home and play street hockey, hide and seek, etc until it was dark.

I feel there are many reasons for the lack of activity with kids these days. I feel they are attached to TV for many reasons, but the most important is that parents are working more and communicate less with their kids. They themselves are too busy on the phone with business, in front of the computer checking emails, and then when the day is over, they plopp down and watch TV to relax? So, kids these days are a product of their environment.

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Russ Bianchi — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:16:20 GMT

I do not know about you, or your households, but television is the last resort in ours, if at all, we are too busy reading, helping or checking children's homework, preparing dinner and sitting down ALWAYS together (too many children are latch key and eat poorly in nutritional quality and alone) and off to bed by no later than 9 PM for an early morning start again.

Yes, the bad negativity of broadcast content today is horrific across the spectrum.

So what is the solution? Turn it off, and your well being, and that of your family will be IMPROVED....turn on some nice music, or play some if you have the ability, speak to each other, or read an interesting book or educational article.

We are indeed in charge of our own health, and the proof is in any mirror you gaze into.

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Don_Scott — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:12:29 GMT

It's not just kids that are getting brainwashed by these devices. Just walk down any street in the US in the evening or early morning. You'll see the glow of televisions in many homes. The messages- it's a nasty, dangerous world full of crime, war and sickness. The solutions are to buy lots of stuff, take lots of drugs, and to support society's aggressive efforts to combat criminals and terrorists here and abroad.

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Dr. Matthew J. Loop — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:42:54 GMT

Not to mention, the television is an extremely powerful socialization tool, telling you how to think and perceive on a daily basis! You are literally being programmed, which amounts to a great deal of psychological damage. You could also add that the electromagnetic radiation projected from the TV offsets your bodies own vibratory frequency, consequently creating electromagnetic chaos.