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Dont do Internet TV kids. It’s Bad For you.

Bad news kids. Live Internet TV is bad for you.
Yale University School of Medicine researchers examined 173 studies from the past 28 years regarding the impact of media on our children and flora a connection between media exposure and undesirable health.
limiter>The report examined the effect of media exposure on seven health issues: childhood obesity, tobacco use, drug use, alcohol use, low academic attainment, sexual behavior, and attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity.

inertia, unsurprisingly was shown to contribute to gaining weight.
 The report also found that a link between media exposure and tobacco use in 88% of the 24 studies on the issue. Nineteen out of 24 (84%) studies looking at media capacity and tobacco use found that viewing tobacco use “had a significant association with an add-on in tobacco use.” And in five studies analyzing time dog-tired watching TV, there was a correlation between greater screen time and increased tobacco use.
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The report recommends limiting media exposure and encouraging children to “spend more time playing instead of watching — and playing real games instead of virtual ones.”
 The report acknowledges that many factors contribute to childhood obesity and also recommends that policymakers limit the advertising of junk food to kids. Yet it fails to contemplate whether limiting junk food consumption might curtail childhood obesity more effectively than limiting media consumption.
 

So kids stop watching internet TV. And let us adults watch it instead, we dont care if we’re unhealthy.

part? out your iphone and get watching Free TV. The Joost video Web service was launched this week and is decent for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Its a free application available via the Apple Store.
You can watch flaunt based movies, documentaries, sports and of rowing music.
Joost CEO Mike Volpi said – “Offering Joost on the iPhone and iPod Touch is an significant step for Joost as we travail to offer users agiotage entertainment where they want it and when they want it,”


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