Television: How It Might Affect Children When thinking about a significant argument to present, I ultimately chose to write about a simple medium of entertainment that people of all ages know and love - the television. ... I believe that, in part, television is to blame for the corruption of youth. ... More children choose to watch television when they should be out playing, doing sports, or other positive hobbies. ... Obesity is prone to children who watch television because: One, children love to snack while watching television and the snacks they normally choose are the unhealthy ones c...

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Finally, another cause of childhood obesity is the availability of technologic devices and children's addiction with gaming and watching television. ... Watching television contributes in several different ways to childhood obesity. First of all, time spent watching television is lost to excessive and physical activity. Secondly, children mindlessly eat while watching television. ... Young people today are staying inside, getting less exercise and watching too much television. ...

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When women watch weight-loss advertisements, they try to fit in by following diets and techniques of their own creation. ... Television persuades women to change their bodies to idealized the artificial and skeletal actresses displayed on television. Countless actresses on television come onl in only one size- (0). ... Therefore, the body we see on television is flawless. ... While watching Sex in the City, women start observing the beauty and the fashion techniques of the actresses. ...

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that children who watch more than two hours of TV a day at age 12 weight more than children who at the same age watched less than two hours of TV. ... This study found that adolescents are watching an average of 26 hours of television per week. This is a clear indication that children and possible adults are watching too much television and are deteriorating their health as result of television's encouragement of physical inactivity. Television viewing promotes sedimentary behavior which allows for a build up of excess calories. Thus, it can reasonably be concluded that entertainment ...

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Most of their activities are concentrated around a television, computer and video games. Families, due to the lack of time or convenience, allow children to be in front of the television as many hours as they want, instead of taking them to the park or any other activity that would satisfy their physical needs, indicated by American Psychological Association (APA) "In very young children, research has found that for every one-hour increase in TV viewing per day, there are higher intakes of sugar-sweetened beverages, fast food, red and processed meat, and overall calories (48.7 kcal/day)....

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Four specific causes found by him are first, time spent in front of the television means less time that children are out being physical. ... Second, eating behavior is injected in the thousands of programs available on television but also in the ads for all of the unhealthy food. ... Third, people often snack while watching programs on TV. The fourth cause is that watching too much TV can cause different and odd sleeping patterns which is a widely known risk for obesity. Studies have shown that watching television for three or more hours a day increases the risk of sleeping problems. ...

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Sedentary behavior and "inactivity," such as watching television and playing video/computer games, also are contributory factors. Gortmaker et al. (1996) reported an adjusted-odds ratio (OR) for obesity of 8.3 for adolescents who watched TV more than 5 hours per day compared with those who watched 0 to 2 hours. ... Adults in a trial of maintenance following weight loss sustained their losses best when physical activity was high and television viewing was low (van Baak et.al, 2003). TV watching may promote obesity by reducing physical activity, lowering metabolic rate, and increasin...

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In our society we are constantly surrounded with magazines, billboards, movies, and television shows and commercials showing us what the perfect woman should look like, and in our minds most of us have come to believe that all women should look that way to fit into what we consider ideal. ... (Basow, Kobrynowicz 1993) Overweight women are forced to look at beautiful women everywhere they look, on every magazine cover or on every television show they watch, and in everyday like they are often left out of social groups because of their weight, often only finding friends in other obese people...

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That's why it's so important for parents to watch what their children eat and make sure they're getting proper nutrition and exercise - these are the keys to properly maintaining a child's weight. ... With so many electronic game systems (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, etc.) and a literal bombardment of television programs aimed at children and teenagers, millions of kids are sitting in front of the TV, eating snacks and forgoing exercise and healthy living. ... These same children instead of doing homework or getting exercise are sitting in front of the televisio...

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There are other behaviors that affect this caloric imbalance such as watching television, consuming fast food and consuming large portion sizes. ... These sedentary lifestyles play a role in the rise in obesity with children spending most of their time watching television, playing video games or on a computer and it's during these times that children snack more on foods dense in sugar consuming larger than average portion sizes. With this sedentary activity comes the role of television advertisements for energy and sugar filled foods that influence children and parents to make unhealthy c...

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A 2007 study by the American Kaiser Family foundation states that "half of all advertising time on children's television is devoted to food advertising. ... In the second place, American children spend their entertainment time on sedentary leisure activities such as TV watching and computer use and video game playing. A national survey of teachers regarding the role of entertainment media in students' academic and social development states that, "On average, American children between the ages of 8 and 18 spend more than 7 ½ hours a day using media for fun: everything from watching...

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With the luxury of having everything just a click away on the Internet, television, or telephone, people can virtually live in their house without ever needing to leave-or even move from the couch. ... In one study mentioned in Aven's article stated that "obesity was highest in children who watched four or more hours of television per day these children also tended to consume more calories per day... Phil Show, people tend to associate eating with certain activities such as watching the television, working on the computer, studying, etc., all sedentary activities. ...

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The vulnerable child is quick to take in and personalize comments, such as a father commenting on how fat someone is on television. ... The use of fashion models and celebrities to play this role only intensifies the underlying message in the advertisement, that if thin, beautiful, fashion models and television personalities are dissatisfied with their weight, ordinary women must be twice as concerned. ... In many television advertisements, thin and "beautiful" models grace the screen and sell beauty products. ... It is virtually impossible to attain this look, but the women watching thes...

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Median includes television, internet, and magazines in which they are exposed to the perfection of celebrities. ... Another concern of eating disorders and TV is the growing phenomenon of reality shows and the image these "stars" are putting into the heads of teens watching them. ...

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The broadcasted fashion shows aren't the only way that television broadcasts overly skinny woman. In a survey taken by Psychology Today, 3,542 women answered the question on whether or not television or movie celebrities influenced their body image when they were young; 23 percent answered yes (Thompson and Heiner 342). ... Weight loss becomes achievement, and watching others eat garbage while they exercise control and willpower by eating nothing gives them pride (Anorexia Nervosa 2). ...

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In addition, to get an better insight for what we were looking for, as a group we watched Huffington Post "Fattest Country In The World": Are Schools To Blame For America's Obesity Epidemic?.  ... As expected, majority of the students interviewed preferred fast food meals and rather partake in a secondary activities (i.e. playing on tablets or ipads, video games, or watching television) than playing outside. ...

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