Tag: television
WATCH: 5 Reasons To Read Instead Of Watching TV
The average American watches more than five hours of television every day. By age 65, most of us will have spent nine years in...
13 Reasons Why We Hate Television
Netflix, the streaming TV service, recently noted that many its users are binge-watching series and finishing them in a week. This got us at The...
3 Reasons To Ditch Your TV
Ever since the introduction of the television to America in 1928, Americans across the country have eagerly gathered in front of the mind-sucking box...
U.K. Considers A Ban On Junk Food TV Advertisements
If children are our future, then it follows that protecting our children's health is of the utmost importance. Today, approximately one-third of children and...
Fast-Food Commercials Are Effective — And They May Be Making Kids...
Advertising is an art and a science that is specifically designed to get into the mind of the beholder and stay there. Commercials targeted...
TV May Actually Kill You — Really?!
A study that was recently published online, and will be published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in December, “shows the breadth of...
Less TV Time Equals Smaller Gut
It should come as no surprise that improvements in television technology over recent decades coincide with the rising obesity levels that plague our nation....
How to Exercise While Watching Television
One of the best things you can do for your health is to throw out the television. Couch potatoes are not only subject to...
6 Bad Habits that Can Threaten Your Health
Almost all of us have at least one bad habit we’d like to break, but reversing some of the worst of them can result...
Study: TV Junk Food Ads Linked to Obesity in Young People
A growing body of research associates junk food advertising to obesity, illuminating just how harmful frequent exposure to this type of media can be....
