TV Turnoff (the worst) week

POSTED BY: ilovefirefly
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 22:13
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ILOVEFIREFLY

Monday, March 12, 2007 10:22 PM

It is completely propagandic and based on lies. TV does not make you obese nor dumb nor unactive. two words Discovery,Channel. Read why everything bad is good for you

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Last year my class went on a field trip to learn about radiation. the day before i watched mythbusters. when the person held up a device that i had seen on mythbusters i immediatly raised my hand and said what it was. he was astounded. The whole thing happened during tv turnoff week

please respond

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:18 AM

I haven't a clue what you are talking about. But FMF reporting for respondage duty!

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CAUSAL

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:19 AM

What are you talking about?

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ILOVEFIREFLY

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:22 AM

There are some people who are trying to get rid of television and aren't looking at the facts

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:26 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ilovefirefly:
There are some people who are trying to get rid of television and aren't looking at the facts

OK, there is no way in hell that they will ever do away with television. Seriously, 120 million couch potatoes rising up in a panic is not a pretty sight.

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ILOVEFIREFLY

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:30 AM

They think that television is lowering childerens grades

CAUSAL

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:47 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ilovefirefly:
They think that television is lowering childerens grades

QED

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FUTUREMRSFILLION

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ilovefirefly:
They think that television is lowering childerens grades

Well I think that teaching to tests and trying to teach a years worth of a subject in 1 semester is lowering grades. That and the fact that one does not have to have a license to breed in this country.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:55 AM

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Research published earlier this week, suggests that children who watch a lot of television and have a set in their bedroom, do significantly worse at school and are less likely to reach university.

Dr Thomas Robinson, who led research at Stanford University said that by putting a television set in a child’s room ‘parents are giving up any control over how much and what their children are watching. They have no idea if they are watching all night, or if they are watching violent or sexually explicit content, or content or advertising that promotes alcohol or drug use.’

http://www.raisingkids.co.uk/todaysnews/news_070705_01.asp

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For Imperial Valley residents interested in the education of youngsters, recent research has found too much television and video games have a negative effect on children’s school work.

Dr. Iman Sharif of the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, N.Y., has completed a study seeing the effect extensive use of both TV and video games has had on middle school students in Vermont and New Hampshire.

http://www.icoe.org/ICOE/About/Stories/too+much+tv.htm

Quote:
Relationship of Physical Activity and Television Watching with Body Weight and Level of Fatness Among Children

Ross E. Andersen, PhD; Carlos J. Crespo, DrPH, MS; Susan J. Bartlett, PhD; Lawrence J. Cheskin, MD; Michael Pratt, MD, MPH

From the Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 279, No. 12, March 1998.

Direct Quotes

"Increasingly, leisure time activities are more sedentary, with television watching, video games, and personal computing among the most popular pastimes."

"Because a sedentary lifestyle is considered a risk factor for coronary artery disease. Parents and health care professionals need to encourage adolescent females in particular to maintain active lifestyles throughout adolescence."

"Children who watched more television and were less likely to participate in vigorous activity tended to have higher BMIs [body mass index]."

"Moreover, repeated exposure to television commercials for food may prompt children to increase food consumption, which ultimately leads to weight gain."

http://www.tvturnoff.org/rpage2.htm

Quote:
Larry A. Tucker, PhD; Glenn M. Friedman, MD

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 79, No. 4, 1989.

DIRECT QUOTES

"The present findings indicate that duration of daily television viewing is strongly associated with obesity and super-obesity in adult males, as in children."

"...Non-obese men... prefer other pastimes, since most leisure activities require more physical exertion than television watching."

"The findings of this study and other recent research show that the impact of television on the lifestyles and health of Americans cannot be ignored."

http://www.tvturnoff.org/obesity1.htm

I think I'm going to have to go with the experts on this one, over the pat denial of our resident television apologist.

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FUTUREMRSFILLION

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:35 AM

Yeah ok then. My straight A student will never watch tv again. I guess I will have to remove it from his room. And then my other straight A student will have to forgo a tv in his college dorm. And I am not sure what I will tell people at college when they ask about how #1 managed to get 3 A's and 2 B's on his A levels, then come over here to the US and get a 29 on his ACT - all while growing up with a tv and a playstation his room.

#2 has not taken his ACT yet, but he is straight A honors and always has been.

TV is not the problem - and BTW - most of what you sited spoke of too much tv causing obesity.

The problem with American schools is the curriculum or lack there of it. Children are taught only the information on tests. Teachers are not encouraged to stray from the curriculum. The arts and music are either non-existent or extremely cut back. The only motivation there seems to be is for sports. We should adopt the British School systems curriculum, the children have a much wider vocabulary and are taught maths more in depth.

I remember when we got back to this county I got a call from #2's maths teacher telling me that #2 was failing that part of the course. I asked what they were learning and she said long division - well the problem was that in England he was taught to do it in his head and here they wanted him to do it on paper. He was being penalized for being about to do it all in his head - how stupid is that?

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