... , but they shouldn't be the main focus either. Setting good examples and limits will help kids learn and be healthier. No doubt about it, TV, video games, and the Internet can be excellent sources of education and entertainment for kids. But too much screen time can have unhealthy side effects ... . That's why it's wise to monitor and limit the time your child spends playing video games, watching TV and on the computer and the Internet. Television is causing more and more children to waste their childhood inside instead of going outside and experiencing ... to bed and to have trouble fall...

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... Some people argue that a commercial must have someone attractive that has a perfect ten figure in order to attract people. For example when there is a beer commercial on TV. very rarely do you see a five hundred pound woman serving a nice cold beer over the counter. Its the perfect woman that does it five foot ten inches ... and high schools are now on very strict diets because in there minds they have to look like Britney or some other perfect bodied person on TV. And if you don't look like them your not cool. They think that guys are not going to find them attractive because they don't...

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... . Parents are victimized by society--working to provide for their families and spending less time with their children as a result. Having children watch TV, or play video or computer games, is an easy way to keep them occupied when parents do not have the time to provide supervision. ... Although the media can't be blamed completely for the actions of children, it is obvious that young minds are influenced by what they see on TV or in a game. One of the biggest issues concerning television watching and children is its connection to childhood obesity. In an observation, twelve major ... h...

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... believes the solution is to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants." Media is another thing that highly influences eating habits. It is very clear that media, especially TV, plays a big role in obesity. A heaping amount of research shows that the use of media by today's youth can be linked to their weight because of the lethargic activities done ... , a renewed pediatrician and Chief of the Division of Adolescence Medicine at the University Of New Mexico School Of Medicine, showed that most people snack while watching TV. In fact, the ads for unhealthy foods on TV is marketed toward chil...

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... Radford, a psychology graduate from the University of New Mexico, quotes Douglas Rushkoff, a journalist from Discover magazine when he described the TV show Americas Next Top Model as "observing what young anorexics are willing to do to one another." If anorexic models are presented on ... think "If these tiny models think they are fat than I must be very overweight" when they are actually a healthy normal weight. With TV shows, like the one just described, being viewed every day, it causes women to judge how they see their own bodies and start to develop an ... actresses are on televis...

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... from the moment most of us are able to walk and speak. We learn it through Saturday-morning cartoons, prime time TV and movies. Have you ever seen a fat person in a movie who wasn't evil, disgusting, pathetic or lampooned?" in TV there are lots of humor that relies on body size and lots of joked are made from fat people. Larger size ... women wont be given romantic roles. Usually fat people are given negative roles. But what can be done about it? How these misconceptions, which are coming form TV shows, can be stopped? TV should stop humor that relies on body size. Larger size women sho...

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... that are very calorie dense foods. In today's society there isn't a block where you can't find fatty foods and high sugar foods. Fattening foods are advertised on every radio stations, TV broadcasting shows and commercials. It makes it hard to avoid eating McDonalds. Today there are many companies and franchises that sell fast food products. These foods will typically be high ... blood pressure, asthma, and other serious illnesses. This is extremely sad because these diseases mean that children will have shorter life expectancies than their parents. The show explained that watching TV i...

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... are anorexic or have some other eating disorder. In the United States people watch more than twenty-one hours of TV each week, and also look at many magazines, and a lot of movies which come out every year. In the TV shows and movies all the characters are portrayed as good looking fit people who have everything they need in life, such ... as expensive clothes, and they always seem to look good even as they are waking up! According to the Health magazine Factoid, April 2002 42% of female TV network characters are underweight. But then the villains of the show or the stupid characters ar...

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... by promoting sedentary behavior that is detrimental to our health. The Center for the Advancement of Health found in one of its studies that the amount of time spent watching TV has been strongly associated with weight gain and obesity. The Cincinnati Children's Medical Center concluded from one of its recent studies {where are the source citations or footnotes here?} 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 same study found that overall household TV watching has increased ...

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... presents society with unrealistic body types promoting people, especially women, to look like them. From the magazine racks in the local store overflowing with magazines highlighting beautiful women, to the TV commercials featuring tall, thin women promoting a certain product, the media is everywhere one looks, portraying images of unhealthy body types for girls to look up to. "I wake up to the ... radio, eat breakfast to the TV, drive to school to the radio, use computers for schoolwork, and read magazines and watch TV before bed " the media is always there. I definitely think that the...

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... article "Fat Kids: What's really to blame?" By Parents Magazine states, "The report says part of the reason for this may be that children who watch less TV are replacing TV time with other sedentary activities like reading books and playing board games." Even if a child isn't sitting in front of ... a TV they are still at risk for obesity due to the lack of activity. Yes it is more mentally stimulating for your child to read a book, but if your child consumes ... ...

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... line to become obese due to less calorie consumption due to lack of exercise. 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 TV to listening to music, playing video games, and using social networking site...

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... that to be considered beautiful, one must be thin. Many young women compare themselves to the anorexic models they see on TV. With the increasingly thinner ideal body, women's dissatisfaction with their body images has increased eating disorders significantly. TV commercials send messages telling society what is considered attractive. It is no accident that thinness is promoted as an essential criterion of ... minds of people within society as it defines popular culture. The desires and attitudes of our youth are corrupted by unrealistic demands that they view on television. Society sho...

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I agree with the researchers that point out the fact that we now live in a "food toxic environment . " All over America, we are bombarded by TV commercials advertising for the tastiest, cheapest and usually unhealthiest foods you can find. Kids and adults alike are targeted through commercials and advertisements to go out and buy these foods ... prices are low too, which keeps the parents coming back. Often celebrities will endorse these foods, which makes them even more desirable. The celebrities you see eating the food on TV aren't obese though, so consumers don't think the food will make...

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... the result, unhealthy meat comes to our table. People are struggling with health problems such as obesity and health diseases. Today adults and children are more addicted to fast food. TV, ads, and magazines show people how easy it is to cook with pre-cooked meals. Television is just as crucial a factor in the rise of obesity in children. In 1987 ... , an average of 225 commercials was shown during Saturday morning cartoon hours. By the mid-90s, that had jumped to 997. The captive power of TV is contributing to another piece of the unhealthy environment: the drop in physical activity, es...

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DYING TO BE THIN Is the world of the famous pressuring us to be thin? With one touch of a button, all we have to do is turn on the TV and all we see are our favorite stars thin and beautiful. Then we have others who need to gain weight for "special" movies that need the character to gain weight. ... a time. Alexandra Paul (Baywatch) also said she suffered from a similar eating disorder a few years ago and so did Susan Dey. When Marie Osmond and her brother, Donny, helmed their own TV show in the late '70s, chubby little Marie was almost destroyed when a producer took her aside and told her s...

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... such an emphasis on being thin that has the biggest influence. What is wrong about this is that society does it full knowingly. A great deal of what we see on TV, in magazines, and in movies relates to appearance. All the people you see in the media are beautiful, successful, and most impressionable of all, thin. According to recent statistics stated ... in Health Magazine, thirty-two percent of female TV network characters are underweight, while only five percent of females in the U.S. audience are underweight ("What" 3). This is telling us that those involved in deciding what to put o...

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... car or at the game. Children learn a bad habit of eating all day long. They pack on extra calories they really don't need. Overeating causes obesity. A sedentary lifestyle of watching TV, playing video games, and computer surfing reduces the amount of calories children burn throughout the day causing weight gain. Parents continue to feed their children three meals a day plus snacks ... (while snacking), and go to bed. I noticed this in my extended family when I went home last November. They don't make time for exercise, but always make time for snacks and TV. One day I witnessed, my nep...

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... has agreed to take junk food out of schools and vending machines are slowly being taken out of schools across America. Now, the focus is to limit the advertisements on TV. Some European countries, such as Sweden, have banned advertisements directed at children under the age of 8. Similar propositions have been made to make it less common for young children to ... be exposed to the evils of advertisements. Unhealthy foods are being forced on children constantly. They are on TV. They are in school. They are eaten by children around the world. What is the result? A recent list showed that ...

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... that's not funny whatsoever. Every corner you turn there will be a fast food advertisement. The fast food companies advertise their products to children by putting their products in TV commercials and implementing them in TV shows. The possible negative health effects of eating fast food is getting diabetes, heart disease, andor even death. In the article "If You Pitch It, They ... ...

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... in order to be successful in their chosen life path. This perfect woman stereotype is also present in media, as in movies, TV, and video games the heroine is always a super model. Thankfully, this is beginning to change. Movies and TV are starting to use "normal" women in roles, now showing that non-supermodels are normal. The video game industry ... ...

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... such a television stars, athletes, actors, pop stars, and models. What many people do not realize is that looking good is a full-time job for most celebrities. When you're watching a TV show and a commercial for McDonald pops up, that makes you want to go out and get something to eat right? But then you see a weight loss commercial and all these ... to start dieting and lose all the weight. You start eating less, skipping meals, and exercising like crazy, just to look like all the super skinny people you see on TV and in magazines. When in reality, those models weigh 23 percent less tha...

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... willing to go on rigorous exercises or dieting pills just to attain this result. The media is also contributing in portraying muscularity as "good" and "lovely". TV shows like Baywatch, Jersey Shore, and Desperate Housewives that portray muscular men are fast rising in the entertainment world. Actors like Jim Carey who starred in the movie "the ... try to control their body weight. This problem will continue until overweight and underweight males are satisfied with their body image and not try to imitate what they see on TV or magazines. Men imitate the media images they see. Most of th...

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... they will survive. Nutritionists are occasionally hired to help design a healthy eating plan that the teen can follow. The subject of media can begin to be discussed when talking about TV and how teens are constantly exposed to the "perfect body" of actors and actresses. To begin off, the image of the overweight person seems to always be depicted ... to look like them. But instead of actually taking the product, they will resort to starvation and purging rather than actually purchasing the products. Another concern of eating disorders and TV is the growing phenomenon of reality shows an...

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... 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. It's rare to see young people outside playing at parks or in their yards. Gone are the days when young boys played ... not interfere with mealtime. Research shows that children eat less if they are rushing to go outside. To increase your child's activity level parents need to limit recreational computer and TV time to no more tha...

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