{"id":27045,"date":"2017-05-31T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/afrocentric\/too-much-tv\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T17:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T15:56:17","slug":"too-much-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/too-much-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much TV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15234 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/people-watching-tv-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"TV channel zapping\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Here are three issues to look out for:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Adults watch some 4-5 hours of TV every day (stats relate to adults who have TVs in South Africa and are very similar to the pattern in the USA and the UK). That&#8217;s a lot. There is no doubt that television can be entertaining, relaxing, funny, educational, stimulating, and more. But in a world where we never seem to have enough time, 30+ hours a week seems like too much. As examples here are some things most people struggle to find time for: 3 hours of exercise a week; quality time with family &amp; friends; hobbies; reading; studying.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Besides consuming time, too-much-TV can change brain function. Research has shown reduced cognitive (thinking) ability on those who watch over 3 hours TV a day, compared to those who watch less.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">TV-watching is quite a passive &#8220;activity&#8221; (partly its attraction of course) and psychologists do believe that it can be a way people escape or &#8220;ignore&#8221; life problems. This is not all bad &#8211; a bit of escapism can be perfectly healthy &#8211; but when it becomes a habit or even an addiction,\u00a0and when it leads to an avoidant or &#8220;head in the sand&#8221; mentality, it is certainly not healthy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Some TV is fine, even good perhaps, but for most of us it wastes time we could use more positively and it may well cause brain-function-decline and even indicate deeper emotional concerns for some.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-life"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-31 19:22:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27479,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27045\/revisions\/27479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}