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"Dietz and Gort-maker [64] report that children in the United States spend, on average, as much time watching television each year as they do attending school. Data from the 1999 YRBS showed that almost two-thirds of students age 14-18 reported watching 2 or more hours of television per day [72]. Other national data show that the average amount of television viewing is about 5 hours per day among 10- to 15-year-old children [62]. About one-third of these children watched more than 5 hours per day and only 1% watched 0-2 hours per day." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"If you don't find things to be passionate about in life, that creative energy that dwells in all of us will be forced into unproductive things like eating, arguing with your spouse, watching television constantly, and so on.Your life actually depends on you finding things that make your heart sing. Everyone has lists of things that they once dreamed about, everything from being president of the United States to flying to the moon to being a rock star. Some of those dreams may no longer be realistic but let's revisit those dreams for the sole purpose of using them to create new life goal dreams." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Then, when they get home, they spend a few hours watching television or playing video games before settling in to do homework. "If you go to school," Dr. Oz told me, "you'll be in gym for maybe an hour, twice a week. And of that hour, you only really exercise twenty minutes. You're not active at all. So the amount that you actually sweat is trivial. You don't have to shower afterwards, because you didn't do anything. And that's your entire activity for the week." This situation must change. Our school years should be among the most active of our lives." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"By the way, watching television doesn't qualify as brain exercise. Exercising your brain means doing things like engaging in social interaction, reading, and working strategy puzzles like crossword puzzles or Sudoku—the Japanese brain teaser that has you fill a grid with numbers. Even playing bingo counts as brain exercise—at least more exercise than watching television. In terms of nutrition for the brain, there are many, many supplements that are good for brain function." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Leisure activities such as watching TV and listening to the radio have been linked to increased mortality in both men and women,58 while other researchers have demonstrated that the amount of time spent watching television and listening to the radio associated with the onset of dementia.59 It must be mentioned that certain types of television are better than others. Listening to radio talk shows such as NPR, or to books on tape, and watching the news or educational programming are more beneficial ways to spend your down time—at least I hope so!" - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Miscellaneous Causes Watching Television for Several Hours Scientific research has shown that watching television can dramatically increase cholesterol production in the body. Besides being a necessary component of most tissues and hormones in the body, cholesterol also serves as a stress hormone that increases during physical or mental strain. In fact, cholesterol is one of the first hormones transported to the site of an injury to help heal it." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"Other contributing factors include reduced portion sizes and snacking, eating breakfast, reduction in meals eaten away from home to fewer than four times per week, and watching television less than 3 hours per week on average [28]. To help rein in total energy intake, many in the United States select beverages and carbohydrate-rich foods sweetened with nonnutritive sweeteners. These substances are under surveillance of the FDA. To date, five nonnutritive sweeteners have FDA approval: acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, saccharin, and sucralose." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Remember: if you don't find things to be passionate about in life, that creative energy that dwells within you will be forced into unproductive things like eating, arguing with your spouse, watching television constantly, and so on. Your life actually depends on you finding things that make your heart sing. Everyone has lists of things that they once dreamed about, everything from being president of the United States to flying to the moon to being a rock star. Some of those dreams may no longer be realistic, but let's revisit those dreams for the sole purpose of using them to create new dreams." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Television watching is associated with increases in energy intake and repeated episodes of eating while watching television may result in television's becoming a trigger for eating [96]. Crawford et al. [68] caution that the link between obesity and television watching appears to be complex and that targeting television viewing alone would not be an adequate public health strategy for addressing the obesity epidemic." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In summary, factors that may contribute to insulin resistance and thus to diabetes include: high-fat diet; low-protein diet; deficiencies of the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids; a diet high in simple carbohydrates; high-glycemic meals filled with refined sugar and starches; stress; low fiber intake; deficiencies of the minerals calcium, magnesium, chromium, vanadium, potassium, and zinc; deficiency of carotenoids; low intake of vegetables; lack of exercise; watching television; and nicotine." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Don't try to accomplish other tasks while eating and that includes read- 2 More Important Tips ing or even watching television. Savor every delicious bite and chew your food well. And you'll enjoy the meal more and feel fuller faster. Manage Hunger. Sometimes we think we're hungry but we are in fact experiencing another distracting feeling that could range from boredom to anxiety. If your tendency is to immediately grab something to eat at the first sign of hunger, here's your proactive SuperFoods approach. Follow these steps: Take your emotional pulse: Are you bored? Stressed? Angry? Tired?" - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"First, exercise and eating are mutually exclusive activities, unlike eating and watching television. It is easy to scarf down extra calories while watching your favorite crime drama or a movie, but it is a real challenge while you are playing tennis. Exercise is calorie-free fun. Second, exercise helps you sleep. If you have given your muscles a good workout, they demand sleep. You will sleep much more soundly than if you had spent the entire day behind your desk, watching television, or reading." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"Arthritis Medications ne night a few years ago I was watching television when a commercial came on that caught my attention. An older but very attractive woman pirouetted across a skating rink as cheerful, up-tempo music swelled around her. Three Dog Night's rock classic "Celebrate, Celebrate!" urged her on to ever more acrobatic moves. Next, the words Celebrex and Ask your doctor appeared on the screen, and with them the promise of the happiness and vitality that I, along with millions of baby boomers, fantasize about. The ad conjured up a lovely picture." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"A few moments of watching television, even so-called news programs, demonstrate that anecdotes are commonly used to "prove" just about anything related to illness and health. We ignore all such stories. Even published scientific case studies of one person, or even a few, or even a few score, interesting though they might be, are too limited in scope to help us draw conclusions. Whenever possible, we rely on statistical data. These data give us the best picture of what is happening to most people most of the time." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Many of the exercises can be practised when sitting, driving, walking, running, climbing stairs or watching television. Remember, it takes more muscular effort to be tense than it does to relax. Lessen the strain—relax. All these exercises should only be done when you are asthma-free. Do not over-extend your breathing or exercises to the point of wheezing as it is very important to avoid an asthma attack at any cost, even if this means resorting to your medication or puffer." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Some therapists suggest that while watching television or waiting at traffic lights we can help our bodies relax by applying finger and thumb pressure to the chest, especially between the ribs (intercostal bones) from the neck to the bottom of the sternum. Acupressure points in intercostal spaces. In recent years acupressure aids such as earrings, called 'acurings', have been designed. These apply light pressure to the lung and heart points in the ear. The earrings are only worn for 20?" - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Obviously, the Natural Hygiene faster is not watching television, not on the phone, not at the computer, not reading, not at hobbies, not taking regular exercise, not exchanging recipes with other fasters all day and night, and not engaging in endless conversations. Ideally, the health seeker is securing deep and complete rest on all five of these levels, taking part in any of the above activities minimally or only because of emergencies. To so abstain is very hard for the thrill-seeker. Even the health seeker who is more relaxed and not a stimulant junkie can get very fidgety." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Parental prompts for children to play outdoors instead of watching television or playing video games have been shown to positively influence children's activity levels [139]. Parental prompts to be active have also been shown to be related to young children's activity levels in some [140-142], but not all studies [143, 144]. Taylor et al. [145] argue that age of the child needs to be taken into account when understanding the impact of parental behavior on children's activity levels." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Regular consumption of stimulating foods or substances, such as meat, hot spices, chocolate, sugar, tobacco, narcotic drugs, soda pop, artificial sweeteners, and the like • Stress • Most pharmacological drugs • Excessive exercise • Overeating and excessive weight gain • watching television daily for several hours Any of these factors have a blood-thickening effect and, thereby, force cells to give up water. The cellular water is used to restore blood thinness. To avoid self-destruction, however, the cells begin to hold onto water." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Research shows that when spouses (who are already spending less time with one another) are together, they spend three to four times as much time watching television as they do talking. In 1970, 6 percent of sixth graders had a television set in their bedroom; by 1999, 77 percent of sixth graders had their own television. Approximately half of all family members report watching television while eating dinner, and nearly one-third do so during breakfast. I have known several people who viewed themselves as so addicted to television that they felt their only option was to get rid of it." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"The light from watching television or working at the computer may prevent our sleeping rhythm from kicking in. In particular, the bright light of a TV or computer may stop our melatonin levels from rising to induce sleep because our body still thinks it is daytime. You may think of the hormone melatonin simply as an over-the-counter sleep supplement, but it is much more than this. In terms of the body's overall rhythm and health, it plays a key role. Melatonin induces sleep and helps regulate our body's circadian rhythm, synchronizing our internal body clock." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"I was watching television the other day when an antidepressant advertisement informed me that "seventy percent of all people taking antidepressants are still depressed." It went on to advise that if this is your problem, you should think about adding or switching to another 81 antidepressant. Well, this can often work, but to me it confirmed what I see in my office: most medications work in the short term but eventually most people end up increasing their doses or adding more medications." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Volunteers viewed the slide show naturally, looking at whatever interested them, as if they were watching television. By tracking where they directed their eyes, these scientists confirmed that, under the influence of positivity, people looked around more, and more frequently fixed their gaze on peripheral photos. Quite literally, then, positivity changes your outlook on life. It expands your worldview. You take more in. The one exception was when the pictures were aversive. In an instant, negativity zapped broadened attention." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Not only did the children improve their scores on standardized tests, but the health of the volunteers substantially increased: half of the women who were using canes stopped; 44 percent reported feeling stronger; the amount of time they spent watching television dropped 4 percent; and they reported a significant increase in the number of people they could turn to for help. Volunteering is beneficial because it involves social contact, which is inherently challenging for the brain." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"I have never met an intelligent person I've respected who spends any considerable time watching television. I'm not trying to judge you if you watch television. I certainly watched television for many years. Yet, when I stopped watching television, I really began to transform my life. It can be difficult to stop watching TV; you might have some favorite shows, and you get a lot of benefit and enjoyment from that at the moment, but it's important to realize the cost to you, and how much you are opening yourself up to brain spam if you watch television on a regular basis." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"As hard as it may be to believe, television viewing somehow decreases the body's metabolic rate even more dramatically.21 watching television also slows down the body more than does reading.22 I want to see the depressed person moving away from anything that depresses physically or mentally. The "opposite" of watching television in terms of metabolic rate changes is getting physical exercise. Perhaps this is another reason exercise is so beneficial to those seeking to overcome depression. There are secondary reasons why I am concerned about television viewing." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"I have to work too long without stopping. I'm watching television. I am driving. I am in a meeting. I am with my family. I am in a room full of people. I am working. It's cloudy or raining. I'm under pressure. I have to take care of someone. I am alone for too long. I am forced to be in a room that I find uncomfortable. I have to do something new. I'm ready to go to bed. Demands are made by my children or family. I have a sick parent. I have an unsympathetic spouse. I have financial burdens (mortgages or taxes)." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"You cannot get your child out the door to play soccer or basketball when you are sitting on the couch eating potato chips and watching television. Like all other aspects of this program, the changes you make regarding activity and exercise have to be family changes. You're all going to get more active, healthier, and happier . . . together. In addition to curing a case of ADD/ADHD, you'll also reap other health benefits. Nine-year-old Oliver and his six-year-old brother, Victor, were two of my patients." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "With few other obvious options for recreation, many of them resort to hours of watching television or playing video games to pass the time. Their parents, who are often exhausted from their jobs, child-care responsibilities, and other duties, are so grateful for the quiet time that they'll allow their children to waste hours of time this way. I asked Jessica and Ted to begin the nutritional part of the boys' treatment first. The food at the after-school programs and the doughnuts and other junk food served after the kids' soccer and baseball games was bad enough." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"In contrast, researchers found that indoor activities like watching television, or outdoor activity in paved or non-green areas increased attention deficit. This is, of course, no real surprise. The benefits of a trip to the countryside for older children are well known." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

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