Turning off your television will gain you, on
average, about 4 hours per day. Imagine if
you took that time to exercise, give your
brain a workout and develop strong
relationships. Not only would you be
adding years to your life, you would
become more interesting, energetic, and
fun. So take the plunge and try not
watching TV for a week. At first it will be
strange and awkward, but stick with it and
soon you will love all the extra time.
Below are ten good reasons why you should turn off your tv set..

1. Television Eats Your Time
The average Nigerian adult watches more than
4 hours of television a day. That's 25
percent of waking time spent every day.
Imagine if you suddenly had 25 percent
more time -- that's three extra months
per year! You could get in all your
exercise , cook your meals from scratch and
still have time left over to write a novel.
Over a lifetime, an 80-year-old person
would have watched 116,800 hours of
television, compared to only 98,000 hours
of work.
As a nation, adults watch 880 million
hours of television every day or 321 billion
hours per year. Whew! Imagine what could
get done if we all just stopped watching
TV.
2. Television Makes You Stressed
With the average of four hours a day
gone, it's no wonder everyone is feeling
stressed out and overwhelmed. We put
aside paying bills, finishing projects,
making phone calls and cleaning our
homes to watch TV. We feel overwhelmed
because of all the things we should be
doing (exercising, spending time with
family, eating right) go undone.
And when we feel overwhelmed, tired, and
exhausted we don't have energy to
anything but -- you guessed it -- watch
TV. It is a dreadful cycle. So take a break
from TV for a week and see what happens
to your life.

3. Television Makes You Overweight
Eating while distracted limits your ability to
assess how much you have consumed.
According to Eliot Blass at the University of
Massachusetts, people eat between 31 and
74 percent more calories while watching
TV.
This could add, on average, about 300
calories extra per TV meal. Now consider
that at least 40 percent of families watch
TV while eating dinner. It becomes clear
that TV is a big part of the obesity
epidemic in the U.S. and that TV, in fact,
makes you gain weight.
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4. Television Makes You
Uninteresting
Many people have whole conversations
that are recaps of TV programs, sporting
events and sitcoms. When asked about
their real lives, there is little or nothing to
report and no stories to tell (except the TV
shows they have watched).
Life is too interesting and wonderful to
spend your time either watching TV or
recapping television to your friends. Find
something interesting to do: volunteer,
read, paint -- anything but watch more
TV.

4. Television Makes You
Uninteresting
Many people have whole conversations
that are recaps of TV programs, sporting
events and sitcoms. When asked about
their real lives, there is little or nothing to
report and no stories to tell (except the TV
shows they have watched).
Life is too interesting and wonderful to
spend your time either watching TV or
recapping television to your friends. Find
something interesting to do: volunteer,
read, paint -- anything but watch more
TV.
5. Television Ruins Your
Relationships
A television is turned on an average of 7
hours and 40 minutes per day in many
U.S. households. With the TV on that
much, there is little time for you and your
significant other or children to spend time
together, share experiences, and develop
deeper relationships.
Sitting together and watching TV does not
grow a relationship. Turn that TV off and
find something to do together -- cooking,
exercising, taking a walk, anything.
6. Television is Not Relaxation
TV is the opposite of exercise. If you are
watching TV you are usually sitting,
reclining or lying down. You are burning
as few calories as possible. All that extra
food you eat while watching TV does not
get burned off. Your brain goes into a lull.
But you are not relaxing -- your mind is
still receiving stimuli from the TV, you are
processing information and reacting
emotionally. Have you ever found yourself
thinking about TV characters? Do you ever
dream about TV shows? These are signs
that the brain is working hard to process
all the TV you have been watching.
7. Television Loses Opportunities
If you are sitting and watching TV, nothing
new or exciting is going to happen to you.
New opportunities and ideas come from
being out in the world, talking to people,
and reading interesting things.
Watching TV isolates you. Nothing is going
to change in your world if you are
watching TV. Turn off the TV, go out into
the world, talk to people, and see what
happens.

8. Television is Addictive
Television can become addictive. Signs of
TV addiction include:
using the TV to calm down
not being able to control your viewing
feeling angry or disappointed in how
much TV you watched
feeling on edge if kept from watching
feeling a loss of control while watching
If the idea of giving up TV for a week is
horrifying, you may be addicted to
television. Luckily, TV addiction is a habit
and not a physical addiction like smoking.
You should be able to control it once you
are aware of the problem and make a
decision to change.
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9. Television Makes You Buy Things
By age 65, the average American has
seen 2 million commercials. Your
knowledge of products and brands comes
from these TV commercials. Your
perception of what you need also comes
from these commercials.
If you didn't know that your iPod could
talk to your running shoes, you wouldn't
feel like your current shoes are too low-
tech. If you didn't know about vacuums
that never lose suction, your current
vacuum would seem fine. Our perception
of need is determined by what we see.
Need less by watching less TV.
10. Television Costs Money
A basic cable package costs 10k
month and many packages cost much
more than that. That comes to at least
120k a year spent on TV. For that much
money you could: get a
gym membership, buy a nice bicycle,
invest it every year for 10 years at 10
percent interest and have sum good returns.

he who has ears let him hear oh..he who get eyes let him read n quit the habit.odawise he or she will be like dis dear chicken..

he who has ears let him hear oh..he who get eyes let him read n quit the habit.odawise he or she will be like mama emeka*s chicken.

Too much of anything is not reALLY good.

Most of what you put up there are quite true.As for me i only watch television to keep myself abreast of the happenings in my environment and country at large.I discovered just recently that most of the programmes shown on our local television station are more or less "dead" stuffs, i mean not soul and mind edifying. Left for me, i prefer listening to radio than sitting on the couch watching some crapped television stations.

Ninejaywon: Most of what you put up there are quite true.As for me i only watch television to keep myself abreast of the happenings in my environment and country at large.I discovered just recently that most of the programmes shown on our local television station are more or less "dead" stuffs, i mean not soul and mind edifying. Left for me, i prefer listening to radio than sitting on the couch watching some crapped television stations.

Dstv explora to the rescue.