Watching television increases the risk of disease and premature death – Terra.com

By Francisco Fonseca N. Senior (Part II) Mexico, December 13 (Notimex) .- The researchers believe this is due to less physical activity, but above all the fact that they tend to consume more calories than recommended daily (2 mil in adults). The marketing of unhealthy foods and sugary drinks through television commercials, encourage massively consume these products, hence the television-related obesity. Type 2 -Diabetes A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, confirms that for every two additional hours spent watching television, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes increased by 20 percent. The study notes that remain for several hours sitting generates harmful changes in insulin sensitivity and fat metabolism. It also promotes inactivity viewers they should walk about 500 thousand steps a day, they stop. Heart heart-disease also suffer consequences to see several hours of television. For every two additional hours of staying in front of this unit, the risk of heart disease increases 15 percent. -having Tired Saffra Norman, chairman of ophthalmology at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, confirms that view television several hours cause eyestrain and headaches. These symptoms are heightened when watching TV with the lights off. Although eyestrain this is not a serious problem, a measure to avoid this is to reduce the hours you spend in this hobby and rest your eyes while commercials are transmitted. – Reduced fertility. A study by Harvard University shows that men who spend more than 20 hours sitting in front of television recorded a reduction of 44 percent of sperm; while men working 15 hours a week have a higher count. – Problems in the relationship. A study of Albion College in Michigan revealed that the relationship could be jeopardized if the couple sees many television. When a person idealizes his life as seen in the television series, the ability to really experience them is reduced. – Shortens life. Watching television more than three hours a day increases by 13 percent the risk of death from any cause or for the development of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. – Promotes childhood obesity. When children have no limits when it comes to watching television are more likely to develop obesity, according to a study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. – Promotes junk food: According to a study published in the Archives of Pediatrics & amp; Adolescent Medicine, revealed that children who watch television every day after school eat more sweets and sugary drinks, which decreases the possibility of eating fruits and vegetables. – It affects the quality of sleep. A study by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, whose main office is in Darien, Illinois, said that watching television programs before bed can reduce deep sleep and cause damage to health. No matter the age, the consequences of spending many hours watching TV are the same and the effect can occur over time. The challenge is to begin to cultivate healthy habits. This includes limited to less than two hours a day watching your favorite programs. You can invest your time in other activities: reading, playing board games, engage in household arrangements in closets, pantries, etc. And outdoors, as gymnastics, walking, jogging, biking, etc. The connection between television and the disease is not a mystery. Watch TV consumes time that could be spent walking and exercise, or even to move a little. It has also been linked to unhealthy diets, including consuming too much sugar, soft drinks, processed foods and snacks; food, perhaps not coincidentally, are often in TV commercials. Moreover, some studies suggest that prolonged sitting, beyond its impact on eating habits and exercise, may cause metabolic alterations that contribute to unhealthy cholesterol levels and obesity. Across the Atlantic, in Spain, the average television consumption is four hours a day. Researchers and sociologists refer to the “low levels of physical and high levels of TV consumption during

youth and adulthood activity associated with worse cognitive performance to reach middle age.” In particular, these behaviors are associated with having a speed slower information processing and cognition but as could memorize a phone and follow the thread of a conversation with distractions. Compared with other subjects who were themselves active and saw little television, the most sedentary had twice as likely to get poor results in different tests to measure the fitness of the brain. In this sense, the professor at the University of Zaragoza Juan Ramón Barrada is critical: “The elaborate studies are good, but do not guarantee that problems will not boot from the origin.” “We do not know who performed low physical activity and had lower cognitive ability at age 25 (average age in the first data). Maybe they were already different at that age,” he reasons Barrada, who was not involved in the study and which specializes in psychological measurement and assessment. How to reduce screen time for some children, reduce the time in front of screens to 2 hours per day it can be difficult, because television can form a large part of their daily routine. However, you can help them, telling them how sedentary activities affect your overall health. Talk to them about what they can do to be healthier. To decrease screen time: -Remove the TV or computer in the bedroom of her son, -Do not allow watching TV during meals or when doing tasks No let your child eat while watching television or using the computer – Do not leave the TV on as background noise. Instead, turn on the radio or have no background noise, -Decida what programs look ahead and turn off the TV when the programs are finished, -Sugiera other activities, as a family board game, a puzzle or go hike, -Keep track of how much time is spent in front of screens. Try to spend the same amount of time to be active, be it a good role model as a father. Reduce your own screen time in front of 2 hours per day, If it’s hard not to have the TV on, try using the sleep function so that it automatically turns off, and -Rete his family to spend a week without watching television or other activity of screen time. Find activities to do with your time that you take to move and burn energy. McLuhan to date, thousands of communication experts, journalists, researchers, psychologists, sociologists and scholars of cybernetics and its causes have produced billions of pages pouring generous versions and trying to overcome the existing problems. But the issue is still there. Television as we know it will disappear in 50 or 60 years, but humanity will continue to put all your senses on social networks and new and very modern artifacts that will attract and make you happy virtually. That pernicious invention of the first half of the 20th century, called television, modulate the behavior of humanity for hundreds of years. NTX / I / FFN / FSC /