Physiological Effects Of Watching Too Much TV

3.0 Effects Of Watching Too Much Television

3.1 Physiological Effects

One of the physiological effects of watching too much television is obesity or eating disorders. People, who spend hours and hours in front of the TV sets, are under very high risk of becoming overweight and obese. When people sit in front of a TV set they never get enough of it. So they begin to eat junks in front of the television. They often eat unhealthy snacks which contains high level of sugar and fat because they have not enough time to cook a healthy meal. Moreover, it is very common nowadays to snack excessively or to drink a lot of sugary drinks or beer when watching some exciting programs, like sports, action movies or thrillers. Hence, people get eating disorders

Youths especially are prone to be exposed to violence. Youngsters tend to consider violent actions after watching too many violent scenes on television. Moreover this leads to emotional frustration among family members and problems with relatives and friends. This happens because people are so used to observe the dramatic developments on screen that they think that it is real life. In fact they even think that violent actions are normal these days. Children develop aggressive personality and tend to develop bad behaviour. Youth become insensitive to the suffering of other people. Hence in future we are going bring up aggressive and violent

The phrase “couch potato” best suits people who sit around watching television all the time. For instance, instead of meeting a friend at the weekend, people prefer to sit in front of the television. Not surprising, even people living in the same house do not talk to each other. Consequently, people have no social life. In a society they will have problems to communicate with each other. Increase in daily television watching for kids of 2 years and above is also associated with reduced classroom engagement (which is largely determined by attention skills) and physical prowess at kindergarten, (Linda Pagani, 2013). Young children’s brain are like sponge absorbing everything around them. Their development of communication begins long before they say their first word. When young children are glued in front of the television, they do not interact with others. For every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, babies actually learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary words than babies who did not watch DVDs. (Frederick Zimmerman and Dr. Dimitri Christakis, 2007). Moreover youngsters who watch too much television have behavior problems like trying to imitate ’the hero or villain’ in a movie. Worst still they use vulgar words to their friends, even parents and siblings whenever they are angry and cannot control their emotion. They