Obesity-TV
This weeks study that watching television could prove as harmful as smoking cigarettes shouldn't come as any surprise to us. Americans created the "Couch Potato Syndrome" as a cute depiction before scientist had shown a "real" syndrome existed known as Syndrome-X(Cardio-Metabolic Syndrome)was put together.The Cardio-Metabolic Syndrome is known to be related to obesity, over-weight status, high cholesterol, high triglyceride, and very high blood glucose.This all lead to a higher morbidity and mortality. Recently, medical studies have been making the tie in between those of us who watch telivision late night and continue to eat at will also being related to a rise in insomnia and diabetes in our country. Children are watching a much higher to alarming amount of television as well and guess what- the rate of obesity has nearly tripled in the last 3 decades along with a rise in pediatric heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and liver disease. O...