Remotely Controlled: How Television Is Damaging Our Lives

Remotely Controlled: How Television Is Damaging Our Lives
ISBN-10
0091906903
ISBN-13
9780091906900
Category
Television
Pages
370
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Random House
Author
Aric Sigman

Description

A startling expos of Britain's growing addiction to television and why and what should be done to stop it, the author looks at the statistics that show television has become an obsession even more influential than parents inside the household. In this insightful and shockingly perceptive assessment of the relationship with the small screen, the author reveals the alarming reality of what television is actually doing physically, emotionally, intellectually, and socially. He provides evidence as to how television contributes to the rising global obesity rate by actually slowing our metabolic rate, stunts children's brain development, and is responsible for over half of all rapes and murders in the industrialized world.

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