What are the harms of television to the human body

Nowadays, almost every family has a TV, and watching TV has become a daily routine for every family. Television can indeed bring greater joy to our lives. Let people fully enjoy their leisure time after work. Television can also spread a lot of knowledge and make many unknown things clear. But television also has disadvantages. So what are the harms of television to the human body? Let’s talk about it below.

Watching TV is an indispensable part of modern people's leisure life, but watching too much TV not only wastes time but may also harm your health.

Watching TV has become our most daily activity. Even the main leisure activity for children at home, besides playing computer games and exercising, is watching TV. Many families have more than two television sets, and the viewing hours tend to extend later.

After working all day, the first thing many people do when they get home is to turn on the TV, grab a snack, relax themselves, and turn the remote control up and down without watching any program properly. The whole night has passed like this, and in the end they can only fall asleep with guilt, secretly swearing to God that they will never watch it again next time.

But you may not know that watching too much TV not only eats up modern people's time, but also harms their health.

Watching TV is like entering a hypnotic state

Americans are accustomed to describing people who sit in front of the TV for a long time as a potato planted in the sofa. Just the sitting and snacking involved is enough to put TV watchers at risk for weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and arthritis. Research from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center suggests that children may be brainwashed by constant exposure to television ads and run to buy junk food.

Television has an impact on the lives of modern people. Even the last pure land on Earth without television - Bhutan near the Himalayas - was conquered in 1999. When an independent producer from New York City went there to shoot a documentary, he discovered that while Bhutanese monks were performing religious ceremonies in people's homes, their eyes were lost in their televisions.

Kuby, a media research scholar at the State University of New Jersey, pointed out that the average person usually watches 2 to 3 hours more of the show they want to watch after finishing it. Therefore, some people say that television is an electric drug. Once turned on, it is difficult to turn off, and even the most devout religious people find it difficult to resist. The reason is that scientists have discovered that when watching TV, the alpha waves in the human brain become active and the beta waves become relatively slow, creating a slightly drunken and relaxed state.

Watching too much TV affects your mood

Watching TV causes the prefrontal cortex of the brain to idle for a short period of time. People may think this is a good opportunity to give the brain a rest, but in the long run it may have adverse effects on children and weaken their ability to deal with problems and their critical thinking, said educational psychologist Hilly.

It turns out what my mom always said about watching TV making you dumber is true. No wonder TV has a nickname called "idiot box". In Shealy's research, she found that children who watched a lot of television were more focused in school and less likely to fight with others on the playground after taking some time away from the TV. Watching TV can actually affect your mood.

Some people watch TV to kill boredom; some are so addicted to TV that they ignore their relatives and friends, forget their responsibilities, and endanger their interpersonal relationships; some people become addicted to watching TV in order to escape certain bad emotions or are afraid to face problems. Studies have found that people who are divorced or separated from their spouse watch more TV than the average person. After the TV is turned off, the tipsy hypnotic state is lifted, the original troubles reappear, and the viewer may develop signs of withdrawal, including boredom, dissatisfaction, irritability, lack of energy, and even inability to concentrate.

Scholars point out that as long as you maintain your autonomy in turning the TV on and off and are not controlled by the TV, watching a moderate amount of TV is basically not a bad thing. However, if watching TV is used as an excuse to deal with difficult problems, it may further cause psychological problems.

The harms of television to the human body are introduced above. After reading these introductions, will you still stay in front of the TV every day? No matter what you do, there must be a limit. If you exceed this limit, good things will turn into bad things. Therefore, there should be a limit to watching TV so as not to pose any adverse threat to your health.