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TV Does More Damage to Your Children Than You Ever Imagined

All that time children spend in front of a TV may be doing far more harm to them than you ever thought possible. In addition to being a trigger for obesity, the "glow box" may raise their risks of bad eyesight, premature puberty and autism, according to a new report. And that's not all...

A British psychologist identified 15 different side effects related to children spending long hours in front of a television. Among them:

  • Cancer
  • Alzheimer's
  • Heart trouble
  • Healing
  • Diabetes

The trigger for some of these conditions: Watching TV disrupts the production of the hormone melatonin which explains why young girls may be reaching puberty sooner or kids are developing cancer at a younger age than ever before.

Because severely limiting your child's TV time is indeed a life-saver, I urge you to review this important list of 20 fun activities you can do with them that have absolutely nothing at all to do with sitting indoors in front of a box for hours.

Physorg.com February 19, 2007

Scotsman February 19, 2007





 
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Posted On Feb 22, 2007
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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Posted On Feb 20, 2007
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.

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Posted On Feb 20, 2007
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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Posted On Feb 20, 2007
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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Posted On Feb 20, 2007
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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