Explain Why Children Should Not Watch Too Much T. V.

Did you know that more than 70 percent of children ages 8-18 have a T.V. in their bedroom? Children ages 5-16 spend an average of six and a half hours in front of a screen every day while in 1995; children only spent an average of three hours watching T.V. It has become so popular because of new technology and increase in T.V. production. According to geek.com, 3 Samsung T.V. are being sold every three seconds! But children should not watch more than 6 hours of T.V. a day because it has many negative effects, like poor eyesight and dizziness, negative attitudes, and weight gain, especially in children.

The first reason children should not watch too much T.V. is because it causes eyestrain and dizziness. After watching more than two hours of T.V., your vison will be blurry for a while. I always feel dizzy and everything seems blurry for a while after watching a movie in the movie theatre. If you focus your eyes on the television for too long it will cause eyestrain. “Children typically sit on the floor to watch T.V. and tilt their heads up which causes even more eyestrain than sitting eye-level to the T.V.” states howstuffworks.com. Digital motion sickness often happens when

is bad for you is that watching television causes hunger, even when your body doesn’t need food. People tend to snack while watching T.V, especially on calorie-dense foods. Most foods that people tend to snack on have very high levels of fat. Did you know that studies have shown that there is a direct relationship between watching T.V. and weight gain, especially in children? Research conducted at Harvard first linked watching T.V. to obesity more than 25 years ago. Most times, you are unaware that you are eating food while watching T.V. “Being visually triggered by food is much more likely while watching T.V. because of advertising,” states positivehypnosis.com. These things are just some other reasons that T.V. is not good for your