TV dinners – are they killing you?
Weight gain
Everyone’s obsessed with weight. The media are full of it. You’re either too thin (size 0; is that possible?) or too fat. Britain has something like 40% of its population declared obese. Must have been quite a task weighing us all - over 60 million of us, as far as I know.
TV is the enemy
Either way, we’re not getting any healthier. Did you know that people eat far more and far faster when they’re watching television? Couple this with the amount of hours we watch TV and you have one possible source of the nation’s obesity problem.
The cure
So now you know what to do. If you’re seriously overweight and want to take action, then you have to either stop watching television or stop eating while you’re watching. You certainly need to give all those cooking programmes a miss. But they come on just at supper-time and you don’t want to miss Jamie Oliver telling you how to eat more healthily, so you’d better have a TV dinner while he’s on.
Brain fag
Watching television is emotionally very draining. No matter what TV chefs would have you believe, research shows that we respond emotionally to a fictitious crime on screen in the same way that we re-act to real newsreel footage. In other words, the depiction of a murder in a TV drama causes us the same emotional trauma as if we had actually been forced to watch the real thing. Wow! It’s enough to put you off your dinner!
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