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How does watching 32 hours of television a week affect children’s brain, and body development between ages 2-5? Child obesity rates have risen to its current level because of our habits to TV culture and our love for fast foods. Obesity is a medical condition in which extra body fat has added to the level that may have an bad effect on our health, and making our life’s miserable by increasing health problems. Obesity is one of the major health concerns among both children and adults in the United States today. History of Television goes back to 1927, when John Logie Baird, Philo Farnsworth, and Vladimir Zworykin invented the first operational electric television system. TV programs were developed from simple motion pictures to high quality shows containing every single detail. In every decade the social life has given new shapes to TV shows. The enormous numbers of American households have televisions. In the beginning, only 10 percent of households had a television, by 1990-96 the percentage increased to 99 percent. As a result the prices of television dropped, so families were able to have more than one TV for their houses, and children had more chance to watch TV. Research shows that 54 percent of children have TVs in their room, and they spend more time watching TV than they spend in school. Television is one of the greatest inventions in the world and it plays a huge role on humans. TV is a good advantage for entreating people, but not if you watch it every day because you will get addicted to television. The media has been a concern for obesity in children. Television can cause obesity in families, and it will lead to unfortunate academic performance, and it also spreads violence.
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...hat is presented on the media as a reality. According to Brandon S. Centerwall, “Following the introduction of television into the United States, the annual white homicide rate increased by 93%, from 3.0 homicides per 100 000 white population in 1945 to 5.8 per 100 000 in 1974; in South Africa, where television was banned, the white homicide rate decreased by 7%, from 2.7 homicides per 100 000 white population in 1943 through 1948 to 2.5 per 100 000 in 1974 (Fig 2). As with US whites, following the introduction of television into Canada the Canadian homicide rate increased by 92%, from 1.3 homicides per 100 000 population in 1945 to 2.5 per 100 000 in 1974.” As the homicide increases I believe that the media should decrease the amount of violent shows on the television, because not only it disturbs the children but it also affects our society.

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