Watching too much television

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An average human probably won't be watching tv non stop for 72 hours, as the recordholder in the news item did. But since tv's have been common in most households, the amount of hours that a person watches it per day have increased. This of course has to do with

So far, no official proof has been found that watching a lot of television is bad for your health. There are reports that when young children watch tv it can cause asthma (http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/health/2009/03/03/child_asthma_danger_watching_tv), help causing obesity (http://www.askamum.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Current-news/Children-who-watch-TV-are-fatter/) and there are more diseases linked to this (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/apr/24/childrensservices.medicineandhealth). For the parents, it is quite convenient that their child sits in front on the tv and doesn't have to be entertained by them anymore. Great way to spend quality time with your kid.

But not only (young) children watch too much tv. There are so many people who are complaining that the time is going to fast nowadays. No wonder, if you spend your free 2 hours watching television. Those two hours will go by very quickly, when spending it watching tv from a lazy couch. It really is a pity, because there is so much more to do when the tv is shut down. People weren't complaining that they had nothing to do, back when there was no tv (for everybody). The amount of channels and programmes make it hard to resist, of course. But it is just a matter of getting used to new habits, after a week or two it is very likely that living with less tv is perfectly realizible.