Comments on: Kill Your Television?

By: Diamond Encrusted iPad

Diamond Encrusted iPad — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:09:17 +0000

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By: Aisha Iacovelli

Aisha Iacovelli — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:31:06 +0000

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By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:27:09 +0000

This is ridiculous! We have become a rationing, teetolating society that needs to be “off” things – “off” caffeine, “off” sugar, “off” sugar substitutes and now “off” TV.

We don’t need to be anything society wants us to be. We just need to be ourselves. That includes being what size we are. That is the point of why we should get out there and enjoy life, do our thing, and stop wasting our minds at the idiot box being told what to be “on” and “off” and for how long – this includes our asses.

By: Emerald

Emerald — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:59:19 +0000

Like Jez, I’m more of what some people cutely refer to as a mouse potato – if I’m sitting watching anything, I’m likely as not on YouTube. I watch very little TV at all – I’m sort of half-watching a David Attenborough thing about birds of paradise as I type this, but only because I’m on the laptop in the room where the TV happens to be.

Not that that matters, because it appears any activity that involves sitting down is guilty. I heard (can anyone confirm this?) that Australian health authorities want to limit kids’ reading time. I used to get told I had a big bottom from sitting reading too much as a kid, but my folks were kind of weird anyway – they always wanted me to watch TV with them instead of reading up in my room, because the former was more ‘sociable’. Go figure.

By: Jez

Jez — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:58:50 +0000

I’ll admit it – most of my sit-on-my-ass time is spent on my laptop. I could care less if my tv time was restricted. It wouldn’t change my lifestyle habits at all. Recently, especially, my energy has been used up running around the apartment and cleaning as if my life depended on it in preparation for holiday visits (when I’m not constantly on my feet at work). I’d say that’s burned enough off to let me watch Castle once a week.

By: Liza

Liza — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:01:39 +0000

I haven’t had time to watch TV since I started grad school.

While I lost a few pounds early in the semester, it was due to stress that made me too sick feeling to eat for several days at a time, and once my life leveled out, it came back.

By: karen@fitnessjourney

karen@fitnessjourney — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:50:00 +0000

There aren’t a lot of tv shows that I watch regularly, but snacks and tv seem to go hand in hand in our household. I just can’t seem to watch The Office and not crave Goldfish Crackers.

By: Jenny Islander

Jenny Islander — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:34:37 +0000

I think that it’s easier to stick to healthy eating without the TV beaming endless commercials for greasy, starchy restaurant fare and highly processed convenience foods into one’s living room. Turning it off also removes one of the mysterious forces that can cause an entire bag of chips to disappear. ;)

But that’s not automatically a path to weight loss by any means.

By: Snarkysmachine

Snarkysmachine — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:06:26 +0000

I got rid of cable and eventually the TV itself about two years ago and I’m still pretty chunky. Maybe I need to ditch my food and computer to really experience the full benefits of thinness.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:34:52 +0000

How this affects a person’s overall weight I am unsure, but I do know that watching television for extending periods of time does encourage snacking and otherwise unnecessary eating, at least for me! Regular tv watchers are exposed to tens of thousands of commercials a year and there’s no telling how many of those are food advertisements. And just like that new ipod nano commercial kind of makes me want to go to apple store (an urge I am fighting despite the holiday season), seeing a commercial for pizza with cheese in the crust does make me get the munchies.

Granted do I pop open a bag of chips for every time I hear “5 dollar foot long”? Of course not that’s absurd. But I am of the opinion that being exposed to such on a constant basis does have an affect. Because isn’t that the point of commercials? To make you want what’s being sold? If it didn’t work, I doubt we’d see so many of them.

That being said, the correlation between television watching and overeating and weight is in no way absolute. Hence why it should be considered a correlation. A high occurrence of one has been noted with an occurrence of the other; this does not mean one causes the other. Something I’m afraid that study neglected to consider or mention.