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TV watching increases blood pressure

Posted on 07. Sep, 2009 by Julia Barnard.

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Spending too much time in front of the has been linked with high blood pressure. What makes this finding more startling is that the link has been found in children. 111 three to eight year olds had their activity levels tracked for one week. During this time they wore an accelerometer which measured how active [...]

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Television and children’s health

Posted on 04. May, 2009 by Julia Barnard.

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An analysis of 173 studies revealed a link between media viewing and the health of children and adolescents. Three quarters of the studies found that watching TV, using computers and playing video games had a harmful effect on children. The more time spent engaged in these activities, the more likely the child was to be [...]

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Television and happiness

Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by Julia Barnard.

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Unhappy people spend more time each week watching than do happier people. This is according to the findings of the General Social Survey, conducted on over 30,000 adults in the US. They found unhappy people watched 25 hours of television a week, compared to an average of 19 hours a week for happy people. The [...]

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Leisure time spent watching television

Posted on 15. Apr, 2008 by Julia Barnard.

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The Office for National Statistics in the UK has published its annual Social Trends report. The report revealed that 82% of people are spending their leisure time in front of the , rather than socialising with family and . Only half of those surveyed undertook , opting for a more sedentary lifestyle. Time in front [...]

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Young TV watchers not happy

Posted on 02. Aug, 2007 by Julia Barnard.

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Children who spend too much time in front of the are more materialistic and argued more with their parents. Furthermore, they were unhappier than those children who watched less television. For children from poorer families, the television had a bigger influence on their life and over half believed that as adults, money would bring happiness. [...]

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Television watching habits of children

Posted on 03. Aug, 2006 by Julia Barnard.

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Research conducted at the University of South Australia found that Australian children aged between 10 and 15 years watched on average four hours of a day. 10 per cent of boys spend half of their waking hours in front of the television. It is recommended that children watch no more than two hours a day. [...]

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Watching TV can cause insomnia

Posted on 30. Mar, 2006 by Julia Barnard.

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Research has found that children who watch three or more hours of television a day were twice as likely to have sleep problems in early adulthood compared to occasional television watchers. They either have problems getting to sleep, or waking up in the night and then unable to get back to sleep. Both are types of insomnia. By reducing the amount of television watched at 14 years, young people were less likely to have problems than those that maintained their habits.

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Television watching may speed up the onset of puberty

Posted on 06. Mar, 2006 by Julia Barnard.

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Research at the University of Florence has found that watching television decreases the amount of melatonin produced. Melatonin levels have been linked to puberty, with lower levels found to hasten puberty in young people. This finding also helps to account for the association between television watching and insomnia, since melatonin is a sleep hormone.

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Computers and television have become full-time activities for children

Posted on 05. Mar, 2006 by Julia Barnard.

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A recent study of over 2000 children in the US by the Kaiser Family Foundation has shown that children are spending on average 6.5 hours a day watching , listening to music, playing on video games and using computers. Younger children spend more time watching TV than older children. Children are also multitasking, engaging in [...]