That's almost double the rate between 1976 and 1980. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, a 1998 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that boys and girls who watch four or more hours of TV a day had greater body fat than those who watch less than two hours a day. The Sun-Times also reported that men who watch more than three hours a day are twice as likely to be obese as those who watch less than one hour a day, according to the American Journal of Public Health. Frank Vespe of TV Turnoff Network, said not only do most people who try to quit for a week succeed, but 80 percent watch less TV after the week ends. It's interesting to speculate what we might do without television.
Radios click on effortlessly as people plop into their cars.
Our minds are downloaded with information every day, all the time, with no space left for anything else. It's a vicious cycle that never ends. The last two months, I've made a conscious effort to read on the weekends, foregoing my right to watch television into the early morning hours. Ernest Hemingway's novel about love and loss set against the backdrop of WWI is a classic from start to finish. Even now, I can still see each scene, even certain lines, move along effortlessly in my mind.