Don’t be a “Couch Potato

the popularity of TV

• until 2003, there are 1.416.338.245 televisions set in use in the world according to CIA World Factbook, December 2003

• Especially in America, 219.000.000 televisions are setting in 300 million Americans

Reasons

• TV makes people in unhealthy body condition.

• TV brings a different and new way of child’s development

• TV gives one more entertainment activity

Effects

• high blood pressure, anorexia and bulimia

• Child are more creative

• Families can get together when watching TV

Quote• “Television shows and commercials feature actresses

who are very slender. Beer and soft drink commercials, for example, often feature very thin girls in bikinis. As result, many teenage girls have become insecure about their bodies and obsessed with losing weight, eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are now common among young women” by Edward Kearny, “The Impact of Television”.

• Michael Novak writes in his “Television Shapes the Soul”, “Television tutors the sensibilities of its audience in another way. It can handle only a limited range of human emotion, perplexities, motivation, and situation.”

Advice

• Do not be a “Couch Potato”

• Learning right way to watch TV.