The English Wonderland: 2015

A study published in the US journal Pediatrics recommends that no child under two years of age should ever be exposed to television, while children older than two should not watch television for more than two hours a day. The more they watch, the more problems they will experience paying attention at school, and the more likely they are to be "easily confused". Other studies have shown a link between watching television and obesity. Now, before we start beating ourselves up over this one, there are a couple of considerations to mitigate the impending guilt-attack. Television does not make children fat. Sitting down all day makes children fat. The study says that the 10% of children who suffer most from attention deficit, and who are most confused, are likely to be the same 10% of children who watch more than seven hours of television a day. Call me old-fashioned, but if a child is left in front of the television for more than seven hours a day, there are other problems in that household besides the unbearably shrill voices of the Tweenies. The chances are, those children's parents can't get out of bed. Or they don't like children very much. If children are capable of sitting spellbound for hours in front of the television, but get restless and bored at school, there could be a solution here. If teachers of, say, maths, were to dress up as Teletubbies, we might see a revolution in the learning process, not to mention some interesting new research.

The average American adult spends about four and a half hours a day watching TV -- and that's more than enough to take a toll on their health and longevity. A new study, published today in Journal of the American Heart Association, found that adults who watch TV three hours or more a day may be twice as likely to die prematurely than those who watch an hour or less. Previous research has shown that too much time spent sitting in general is detrimental to people's health, but this latest research found that watching TV specifically can have an even more negative effect than other types of sedentary activity.

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