Watching TV channels has long been part of our familiar reality. Today you will not surprise anyone with the presence of a TV in the house, its diagonal size and compactness, the ability to view thousands of different TV channels. But at the same time, the trend is becoming brighter and brighter: people deliberately refuse it! Is it a matter of personal preferences or the proven harm of TV? This has been debated for decades. So let's see how harmful this pastime is for adults and children.
He alth effects
We will start talking about the dangers of watching TV with specific numbers and statistics. Australian scientists have been conducting research for 6 years, involving thousands of volunteer respondents in their surveys. As a result of the scientific event, the following was found out:
- Those who watch TV less than 2 hours a day are 80% less at risk of death from cardiovascular diseases than those who were viewers from 4 hoursper day or more.
- An extra hour of TV viewing increases your risk of developing cancer by 9% and heart disease by 11%.
- Diabetes, obesity, hypertension are common consequences of long-term TV viewing.
- And about the dangers of TV for children. The risk of losing visual acuity at a very young age is 70%.
Of course, the fault is not the destructive influence of the device itself, radiation from its elements. It's all about the lifestyle that avid viewers lead. They spend a huge amount of time sitting or lying in front of the screen, forget about physical exercises, exercises for the eyes. In addition, the amount of food eaten in front of the TV is difficult to control. And, for the most part, this is not he althy food, but fatty, s alty snacks, chocolates, dragees, sweet soda.
Effect on vision
Separately, we note the harm of the TV for the eyes:
- When we look at the screen, we focus on one point. This causes deformation of the lens, which may partially (and sometimes completely) lose its ability to change shape. And the reason for this is a long static load.
- If the screen flickers in the dark, then your pupil changes its size depending on these flashes. And this is a strong strain on the eyes.
- The color tone on the screen is transmitted in several shades. It is difficult for the eye apparatus to read such information, so it gets tired faster. Such constant overvoltage leads to rapid (and sometimes rapid)visual impairment.
On top of this, the wrong postures of viewers lead to a deterioration of the remains, a weakening of muscle tone. And these are the prerequisites for painful osteochondrosis. A sedentary lifestyle takes a toll on your joints. First you hear a characteristic crunch when moving, and then you watch the development of arthritis.
Wasting time
Proven harm to the TV: this device is a professional "time killer". Steals large amounts of your free time.
Recall for yourself or ask your parents: initially, people watched TV only when there was a free minute. Today, many viewers sit aimlessly at their blue screens for hours, instead of doing something really useful and exciting at the same time - their favorite sport, self-education, a new hobby.
People do not only give their free time to TV. While watching TV shows and programs, they forget to do even important things. The results of the surveys terrify even researchers: the vast majority of respondents devote all their free time to TV. That is, they narrow their lives to a vicious circle "work - TV - sleep." Which is really scary.
Getting out of this circle is relatively easy - start spending your rest time on something else:
- Communicate with relatives and friends, search for new acquaintances.
- Realization of your creative idea.
- Introduction to fitness, sports, jogging orsimple home exercises and occasional walks in the fresh air.
- Make a list of books and follow it.
- Creative activity.
Moral Decay
Another proven harm of TV: mass culture is not aimed at developing and educating people. Her goal is to make us worse than we really are.
Think about what is cultivated in popular TV shows, serials and advertising? Greed, fear, sex - these are the main levers that the producers of these projects put pressure on.
It's a rare film to do without the cultivation of violence (and what's more scary - its approval). Successful heroines are mostly sexy beauties of model appearance. And happy people from the screens are fabulously rich, having endless possibilities. All this together creates a false picture of the world among viewers. They begin to feel like losers, they begin to envy the screen heroes. They strive to adopt false life values from the screen in order to be at least somehow similar to those distant beautiful images.
At the same time, there are catastrophically little worthwhile films and television programs that agitate children and adults to think about the important, to fulfill themselves, to become better. Unfortunately, negativity and base emotions are the most popular "goods" on TV. And not a representation of a real happy life, which is available to each of us without "secrets of success" and "new products of the season".
Mental performancethreatened
The harm of the TV is also that the continuous watching of serials, aimless "snapping" from program to program reduces mental performance, impoverishes the creative abilities of the brain.
It becomes more difficult for a person to look for new correct solutions not only for complex, but also for everyday tasks. Why create, analyze, invent something - there is something already ready, presented on a silver platter, laid out in slices by people from the screen.
Lack of critical perception
The main mistake of avid TV viewers is to mindlessly absorb what is served from the TV. Many stop critically evaluating this information, passing through their own views and system of life values. Here the method of obtaining it is also of great importance - the viewer does not have the opportunity to discuss with the author of the idea, object to him, ask for evidence.
And all this leads to the fact that a person eventually ceases to distinguish real data from fake, moral from immoral. And he begins to take everything said from the screen as the last truth. And such harm from the TV and the computer is terrifyingly huge.
To make sure the above is true, remember how you feel after watching TV for a long time. You invariably feel tired and sleepy. The brain refuses to work clearly, thoughts are confused. You are not able to rethink the information received. Moreover, you remember only a small part of what you heard / saw.
Waste of money
Does TV do more good or bad? The question is rhetorical. But one thing is clear - this device makes you poorer. Forcing you to buy what you don't need often and overpriced.
Don't think it's enough just to turn off ads. You watch movies, series, shows where the same thing is indirectly imposed. And such an influence is even more dangerous than direct calls: "Buy!" You see the image of your favorite hero. You want to be like him - right down to your smartphone, your favorite brands of clothing, perfume, cosmetics. And you buy it, in fact, you do not need it at all. But after all, social status, social recognition, personal qualities cannot be acquired simply by buying something. This is the result of only long and hard work on yourself.
Black Fridays, ongoing promotions, tempting discounts are also ways to get you to buy far from what you need. Or even throwing away money on useless things. The harm of TV for children is that it imposes that this or that thing will make the child exceptional and happy. In fact, the joy of a trinket is short-lived. And only creates a desire to get something new.
Source of negativity
We continue the conversation about the benefits and dangers of a computer and TV. Remember: what you see on the screen is often a source of negativity, spoiled mood and even stress, depression. After all, it often happened that you turned on the TV in a great mood. And here is news about terrorist attacks, armed conflicts, brutal murders. This kind of information is hard to understand.detached. And now nothing remains of the previously good mood.
"Fuel to the fire" is added by the heroes of your favorite films and series. An impressionable viewer sometimes worries about their relationship, ups and downs, as if they were their own. For many, the death of a hero becomes a personal tragedy.
Of course, empathy is a wonderful feeling. But the problem with spending time on TV is that it distances you from loved ones. You begin to worry about the relationship of the heroes of the series more than your own, their problems become closer to you than your family members. You look forward to the next episode, but forget to ask your friend how they spent their holidays, how your parents are he althy, what made your child happy today.
Information overload
Speaking about the dangers and benefits of TV, computer and phone, one cannot help but focus on the fact that all this together is a source of redundant information. Moreover, not useful, but unnecessary, "garbage". It's a never-ending stream of series, TV shows, movies, flavored with thousands of commercials.
And all this turns, in the end, into "porridge", which the brain is simply not able to "digest". It seems that you have learned a lot of new and even interesting things. But what exactly is hard for you to remember.
The worst thing is that you fill your head with unnecessary information that is of no value to you personally. But human memory is limited. You just don't leave "cells" for something reallyvaluable. Or you completely forget what is dear or useful to you.
The benefits of TV
But television is not evil at all. It has several useful features at once:
- Source of information.
- Socio-pedagogical impact.
- Cultural and educational function.
- Educational task.
- Recreational pastime.
- Community integration.
The problem is that these features are not implemented very well.
Dubious benefits?
As a source of news, television is negative for almost every individual. Hoping to get as many viewers as possible, the channels try to present the news as a sensation, to "outline" it with new, sometimes even false "tasty" facts. Psychologists have long established that a person is more interested in news, the more it deviates from the norm. Many journalists see this as the meaning of their work. Information shocks, causes pain, indignation, leaves no one indifferent. And all this is extremely negative for the psyche of the viewer.
As for cultural and educational programs, the style of communication, point of view, the degree of literacy of the host and guests of the program does not always contribute to the development of this topic. Separate opinions are dictated as the only correct, binding. And it is the viewer who suffers from this obsession.
TV is not an absolute evil. But at the same time, the negative impact of TV on he alth has been proven.person, his psyche, lifestyle, moral standards, mental abilities, on the family budget and relations between people. TV will be useful if you devote a minimum of time to it - only to get acquainted with the information that you really need and are interested in.
