How TV effects your health!

When you watch Television, your brain goes into a sleep like hypnotic state, thus providing easy access to the subconscious. This hypnotic state is due to the constant flickering of the screen which impacts your brainwaves. Your brain activity also switches from the left side of your brain (responsible for logical thinking and critical analysis) to the right side. The right side doesn't analyze incoming information. Rather, it just uses an emotional approach which results in little or no critical analysis.

If you're a T.V addict, you might suffer from a short attention span or ADHD. The reason behind this can be the constant changes in scenes which come along with modern day video edits. Films of the bygone years had lesser scene changes or cuts as compared to modern day films. Extremely frequent scene changes can even make you feel sick.

The truth is that children are the most gullible and have a habit of internalizing cues from what they watch on T.V. Though not all children are affected the same way, exposure to violence in media (T.V, video games) makes the kids more acclimatized and habituated to it. There are also chances of children growing up to be aggressive adults if they are exposed to bloodshed and violence in Television.

A study conducted by Harvard University found that men who watched more than 20 hours of television each day were more likely to have 44% lower sperm count than men who did not watch TV for such long hours. Research also identifies heart diseases to be one of the risks of excessive TV viewing, which in turn can be one of the major reasons behind higher rates of impotence in men.