Are you a television addict?

   

  No kind of addiction is a laughing matter, mainly when it comes to such serious issues as childhood obesity and adolescent rage.

   Among the increasingly numerous, modern addictions, that no one imagines, TV addiction may be seen as the softest sort of addiction when it is, in fact, due to the continuous and permanent effect we are all exposed to, one of the more dangerous if not the most (taking into account the way entirely families are all spoon-fed.)

  

   So, meanwhile our society is aware of the dangers of the internet and other dreadful social problems as drug-abuse and alcoholism, gender violence or game addiction, TV addiction is shown to the public as a minor problem, or at least as the harmless.

   But, if I had to rank addictions from less to most dangerous, the one which involves the largest number of people and affects an alarming majority of children, is this addiction which ought to be eradicated as a plague. 

  They say obesity is becoming epidemic. They say that too many weekly hours of TV processed-food ads exposition, just in meals-time, the same as in any moment, is possibly at the root of plenty of health problems. They say that according to the WHO (WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION) soft drinks and fast food apart from processed cereals and trans-fats are important risk factors in most of modern illnesses nowadays; meanwhile ever more consumers (not only students, working mothers as divorced and single parents do it) we all buy the cheapest, quickest food preparation displayed on the shelves at the supermarkets for our children to eat. 

   But not only the availability of low-quality of food lead people to this ( no advisable at all costume). TV is also meant to be changing meal-timetables and even table manners at home. And ever more children are going through this kind of household mess every day, and night!

   No wonder we find children who fall asleep during the lessons at school when are no diagnosed on ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). These late years it has been found that many children are suffering an endemic lack of energy. And all of this are symptoms of sleep-deprivation.

   No. This is not a laughing matter, when even our children are sleep deprived just because the television is still switch on at nights. Or, to put it bluntly: What happens is that the parent´s favourite  tv programme is the underlying cause of a massive quantity of kids suffering either obesity or teen rage.

   Grandma would say that we must put those children to bed (on time, please). And, in fact, it has been shown that if we sleep less we have to consequently eat more if not, we will trigger our children rage in any moment, and most sadly, spoil their chance to be more healthy and happy.