To make a fiery adult feed the kid a bit of TV.

Follow in my footsteps as I undertake an ongoing experiment to recover completely from eczema, gut problems and an aching body. I intend to achieve this by not eating anything that is processed, transported over distance, killed, frozen or packaged, (known as dead food). What I am attempting is well proven methodology based on ancient wisdom of the Essenes and Edmond Bordeaux Szekely who successfully cured many hundreds of people of their sickness and disease, plus the wonderful work of Dr Ann Wigmore. I intend to remain fit and healthy into old age by practicing yoga and exercising, eating only healthy organic food, fruit, vegetables, nuts, and grain, plus seed sprouts. Doing this I will also save money and leave a light footprint.

Day 40

In a bit of light reading I borrowed from “the besty” I found a news paper article cut out and used as a book mark that I thought might be of interest, the caption of the article is  “To make a fiery adult feed the kid a bit of TV” by Penny Fannin and agencies.

Watching more than one hour of television a day may make adolescents more aggressive in adulthood a land mark investigation has found. Adolescent boys were particularly prone to violence in their early teens or early 20s, but even young adults who watched two or more hours a day – especially women – were more likely to be aggressive.

During the 17 – year study researchers from the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University tracked more than 700 people from adolescence to adulthood. The results were published in Science.

“Our findings suggest that ,at least during early adolescence, responsible parents should avoid permitting their children to watch more than one hour of television a day,” said Dr Jeffery Johnson, of Colombia’s psychiatry department. That’s where the vast majority of the increase in risk occurs.

He said the link with aggression remained even after accounting for other factors such as childhood neglect, low family income or psychiatric disorders.

David Richie, a media studies lecturer at Deakin University, said similar trends would be seen in Australia. “I think the aggressive acts and the incidence would be fewer in number, but I think that the associations would be the same”.

But the research did not mean that watching television was all bad. “You have to deal with human behaviour in a social context, and its social context includes things other than television. We don’t have enough information to lay the blame at the door of television but it is a reminder that there’s an association.

I believe that a major factor in family break down is the habit of eating meals in front of the television instead of sitting around the dining table and interacting as a family. The worst case scenario is the adolescent who takes, or in some cases their meal is delivered like hotel room service, to their room to then eat in front of their own television or computer. It could not be good for the digestion either.