Why You Should Break Your TV

orThe Neurobiological Effects of TV on

Human Brain

What People Say :

“TV is an old media (for old people)”

“Young people doesn't watch TV anymore”

“Internet has replaced television”

Favorite Program

Documentary Cinema Information Series Sport Entertainment Game Youth Program Reality Show0

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Favorite Channel (Theory)

arte France 5 France 3 France 2 M6 TF1 W9 Canal +0

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Favorite Channel (Reality)

Arte France 5 France 3 France 2 M6 TF1 W9 Canal +0

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“ Be realist, the job of TF1 is to help Coca-Cola, for example, to sell his product. [...] What we sell to Coca-Cola is time of available human brain.”

Patrick Le Lay - 2004

CEO of TF1

TV Influence

Cognition

Health

Sociability and Violence

Cognition

Language

Attention

Reading

Imagination

Learning

School grade

Imagination

Less than 60 minutes of TV per day

Imagination

More than 180 minutes of TV per day

Language

Learning

Health

Obesity

Smoking

Sleeping

Sex

Alcohol

Obesity

Smoking

Violence

Violence

Thank you !

Break your TV !(now you know why)