Are TV's fattening
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Are TV's fattening
Postby mikesbytes » Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:50 pm
1. How many calories do we burn while watching TV?
2. What is the nutritional message delivered by TV and what is the impact on the community?
3. What are the other questions?
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby sogood » Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:59 pm
RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby goneriding » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:46 pm
The question of the intellectual damage caused by Barney, A Current Today, The Biggest MasterBrother, etc
The question of family health caused by lack of activity and interaction.
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby rkelsen » Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:00 pm
Like everything else, it has it's place.
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby greyhoundtom » Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:11 pm
Cold wet weather, limited riding, increased weight by 3 kg in just the last month, and yes I'm blaming the TV
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby ozrider » Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:28 pm
1. The average adult will burn around 70-80 calories per hour sitting around doing nothing or watching TV.mikesbytes wrote:Television, you can't eat them, but what are the nutritional figures based around TV;
1. How many calories do we burn while watching TV?
2. What is the nutritional message delivered by TV and what is the impact on the community?
3. What are the other questions?
2. TV advertising is one of the most evil things on this earth. They constantly bombard us with ads for healthy this and fat free that when in reality most of it is just manipulation of the facts.
3. Where's the remote..
On a serious note, my poor 9 year old daughter is so confused about what is good and bad to eat she doesn't know where to look.
- Since when did something that is pure sugar become good for you because it contains no fat?
- When did 96% fat free 'healthy snack' become good for you when the other 4% is pure fat and the rest is made up of 30% sugar?
Unfortunately the schools don't help much either, I think they base their nutritional expertise on the same TV adds.
..But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs!
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby ZepinAtor » Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:48 pm
"Television the drug of the nation breeding ignorance & feeding radiation"
If you can spare 6 minutes try & listen to this song (the words that is, as I know not everyone is a fan of hip hop)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebWk9pBXSso
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby Mulger bill » Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:01 pm
A shame the potential for good is lost in a haze of near omnipresent dross. It's not called the cretiniser for nothing in my house.
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby sogood » Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:19 am
From those favourite catho ray tube TVs of couch potatoes,
to LCD TV,
to the latest LED TV.
So how can one say TVs are fattening?
RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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Postby mikesbytes » Tue Jun 21, 2011 5:20 pm
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby sogood » Tue Jun 21, 2011 5:31 pm
See second post!Nobody wrote:Is that because TVs have been getting a good workout?
RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby wombatK » Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:46 pm
Love it.mikesbytes wrote:Ha ha, TV's have got thinner as Australia has got fatter
Really good products advertise themselves so, ergo, if it's advertised on TV, it's not likely to be healthy food.ozrider wrote: On a serious note, my poor 9 year old daughter is so confused about what is good and bad to eat she doesn't know where to look.
- Since when did something that is pure sugar become good for you because it contains no fat?
- When did 96% fat free 'healthy snack' become good for you when the other 4% is pure fat and the rest is made up of 30% sugar?
Indeed, it's almost guaranteed to be highly processed, and hence less healthy than most whole foods. Watch what the fat dudes put in their trolleys at the supermarket - and there'll be a lot of the bad stuff in there (coke, ice cream, biscuits, cakes, butter, sauces, ....)
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby trailgumby » Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:00 pm
... which would be in the Council's hard rubbish cleanup.rkelsen wrote:I have a young family, so it takes me at least an hour to 'wind down' before going to bed. What better way to spend that hour?
Like everything else, it has it's place.
Why not spend that hour reading to them instead? It's a lot less brain damaging than TV, encourages literacy according to the evidence, and is a great way to bond with your kids while they're young.
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby BarryTas » Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:04 am
now i work full time and train 6 days per week 1-4 hours per day. vegging out in front of the TV is my quality time with the wife.............. she loves it
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby gorilla monsoon » Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:05 pm
Bed? You mean you go and lie down and do nothing for several hours? That has no value, you should be up doing something.rkelsen wrote:I have a young family, so it takes me at least an hour to 'wind down' before going to bed. What better way to spend that hour?
Like everything else, it has it's place.
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby rkelsen » Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:14 pm
Of course, I do this first... What kind of father would I be otherwise?trailgumby wrote:Why not spend that hour reading to them instead?
I guess I should have said, "after they're in bed..."
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby trailgumby » Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:47 pm
Good dadrkelsen wrote:Of course, I do this first... What kind of father would I be otherwise?trailgumby wrote:Why not spend that hour reading to them instead?
I guess I should have said, "after they're in bed..."
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby notwal » Sat Jun 25, 2011 4:21 pm
It presents abstractions of the real world for the sole purpose of entertainment.
We are entertained by a wide variety of things from the puerile to the fabulous so its all there qualified by breadth of appeal, cost of production and a few legal constraints.
So yes it is fattening to the degree that fatness (self indulgence) competes with fitness (health/body image) in the real world.
If the real world was into de-cretinism there would be a lifestyle program about avoiding tv. Yes they really would do it
The TdF starts next Saturday 10pm SBS....
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby fishwop » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:49 pm
It was done before, and probably better, in the mid-1970's by The Victims (later called le Hoodoo Gurus) in "Television Addict"ZepinAtor wrote:Quote from Michael Franti of Spearhead (formerly Disposable heros of hyphoprisy)
"Television the drug of the nation breeding ignorance & feeding radiation"
If you can spare 6 minutes try & listen to this song (the words that is, as I know not everyone is a fan of hip hop)
Just because I watch Dinah Shore, doesn't mean I need a facelift
a line that could be rewritten for the current era as....
Just because I watch Oprah Winfrey, doesn't mean I need stomach banding
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Re: Are TV's fattening
Postby ozrider » Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:24 pm
2 hours on the trainer watching the history of Le Tour.
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