TV may be more damaging to you and your family than you may have imagined. I invite you to investigate the myriad ways your TV may be harming you.

However, I encourage you not only to read the articles in the various categories below, but to examine and test these effects in your own life. People are different. I realize that what is most important TO YOU is how these issues are affecting you and your family.

Think about these issues and question how they may relate to your life. Does your TV habit cut into the time you spend with your family? Do your children nag you for products they've seen on TV? Does TV viewing make your children fight and bicker more? Do you eat more in front of the TV? Do you slip into the 'zombie' state in front of a TV?

Once you take at good look at how these effects work in your own life, you will want to reevaluate your relationship with TV. Don't be surprised if you suddenly get the urge to throw it in the trash!

TV and Your Time Articles

The time factor alone is having a huge impact on people's lives. It's amazing to consider what people could do once they stopped watching TV for 4 hrs. 35 min. (the US average) every day.

TV and Your Family Articles

Parents all want to do what's best for their kids, but many are unaware of the negative effects of allowing their kids to watch so much television. Become aware of these effects and find out some of the ways in which you can minimize the effects on your kids.

TV and Your Weight and Health Articles

Your television sits at the heart of a very unhealthy lifestyle that is making people--young and old--more obese, less active, and more sick. Unless this unhealthy lifestyle is addressed, this may be the first generation that does not outlive its elders.

TV and Your Money Articles

Between the costs of the television sets, VCR's and DVD players, cable/satellite dish subscriptions, and all the STUFF people buy because of the TV commercials, your TV habit has a pretty hefty price tag.

TV Content and You Articles: Sex, Violence, Commercials, and More

This is the area which has the most research and is what most people think about when they think about the problems with TV. Despite the studies many people still think that because the content is only on television, it does not have any effect. It's not real. The research, however, shows that the trashy content does have an effect.

TV and Your Quality of Life Articles

TV displaces other healthier activities. Turning off the TV allows you the time to create more of the life you want. Society has changed a lot in the past several decades, but the biggest change is that people are watching TV during much of their limited free time.

TV and Your Community Articles

The problems with television are compounded when 99% of the population is stuck in front of a TV for several hours a day. Plus, there are issues surrounding the nature of the TV industry. Right now the media in the US, in spite of the hundreds of stations, is controlled by only 5 media conglomerates. To cut costs these conglomerates turn to prepackaged news stories created by government agencies and large corporations.

TV and Your Mind Articles

TV has strange effects on the brain. That strange glassy-eyed zombie look that people get when they are watching TV betrays a brainwave state that is passive, hypnotic, and unhealthy. Understanding these effects will allow you to understand why studies show that TV causes attention problems.

TV and Addiction Articles

Many TV critics encourage couch potatoes to simply turn off the TV. They do not take into account that TV is addictive. Many viewers actually realize that the TV is getting in the way of things they want to do, and don't understand that the reason they have so much trouble controlling the time they watch TV is that it is addictive.