"STUDY LINKS TV ADDICTION TO OBESITY"

Well...duh.

Published on July 27, 2004 By Mondo Darko In Current Events

While perousing the news section of I come across the article linking the childhood obesity epidemic to TV addiction. Well, what do you know? Geez, don't kids know how to do sit-ups, push-ups, lunges and crunches while indulging in the daily ritual of commercial garbage to keep themselves lean and fit? Having just begun training at a gym, I consider myself in a different league to these obese TV addicts because:
a) I am not obese, and

I don't watch TV.

So that pretty much sorts me out. But what about the typical hot-dog gulping, meat-pie ingesting, thickshake slurping eight-year-old? How do you tell a child not to eat this and that because it's bad for them at young and impressionable ages without expecting it to have adverse effects?

You can't. The answer is plain and simple, cut down on TV time, offer healthy food alternatives, and get the bloody commercial TV stations to STOP advertising piles of fat and sugary carbohydrates disguised as food.

When I was younder, yeah, i watched a bit of television, but I must say, the advertising aimed for children to use their so-called "pester-power" upon their parents really didn't rub off on me. Somehow, I must have inherently known that multicoloured cereal simply CAN'T be good for you, and McDonalds never had any great effect, because I was (and still am, just quietly) scared of clowns.

Many experts put obesity down to genetics. But in the end, we really all come from the same prototype, so that shut's that theory down. In the past twenty years, people have just been getting bigger and bigger. There is no excuse- poor nutrition in cheap fast food, busy on-the-go lifestyle permits healthy family meals, whilst we humans spend a great deal of our time trying to come up with ways to make life even easier.
The remote control.
The escalator.
Lifts, Home-Delivery, even online grocery shopping.

We are living in a world that just keeps on going faster and faster, and we don't seem to be able to stop and take some time out to put things in perspective. How helpful are these miraculous inventions anyway? Simple laziness? Convenience?

How hard is it, really, to get off your arse and change the TV channel manually? Not that damn hard. Yet even I must admit, I would have no idea of how to even change it manually. We are a society of laziness.
Even in the bible, correct me if I am wrong, but isn't sloth one of the seven dealdly sins?
And then there is gluttony, for those who choose to do a Morgan Spurlock and "supersize" their meals.

It's plain sensibility that should stop people from crossing the boundaries and leading normal, healthy lives.

Now I just got to get some fast food to get my BMI UP to 18.5...

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