Children and Television CaseEssay Preview: Children and Television CaseReport this essayChildren and TelevisionJeff RiceCOM/172November 15, 2011Ronald TatumChildren and TelevisionThis is the beginning of the end for our youth during the early years.. The television has now become our life line for any escape with our kids, well sit them and down and theyll be entertain for hours. What is the impact of television and childrens development? With parents turning to the television as a babysitter, is this helping or hurting our kids growth in mental development. With the new age days of just leaving kids in front of the television instead of having family time like they did in the 1950s while Dad watch the evening news and the kids watch cartoons on Saturday morning. Television has control of us.
With the advancement of television and now the advantages of television it has become a popular learning tool for everyone ages six months to adult. The school learning structure has become very technology over the years. There is always something to watch that will teach and enrich your mind. One of the advantages of television is cable in the classroom. Cable stations were able to broadcast educational television that was commercial free and in the early mornings so that they could be recorded and shared with other classrooms. (Wikipedia) With the advancement of the internet cable in the classroom has been replaced by the internet and the home video department where they are able to find any videos that they need for that subject.
Another learning tool that has help with the advancement of our kids is by watching educational television shows after school like Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer. These shows help enrich the minds of our youth. One show shows you how to spell and another one shows you how to speak Spanish.
Sesame Street has been known to change along with the American culture and the viewing habits of others to make sure that their educational goals were still there after all the years as being the first television show to make their curriculum about educational goals to shape the shows content(Wikipedia).
Dora the Explorer is a television shows that will help the kids read, write, and even understand Spanish. Every episode Dora the Explorer has an adventure in which she helps one her friends during the show and ask the viewer for help along the way, asking if they see a rope that they can climb, shell even speak in Spanish and have the viewer repeat what she has said. With television shows like this its no wonder why kids these days are smarter than they were 20 years ago. Kids that grow up watching these types of shows have advantage of being in the top of their class from the knowledge that they have been taught than the kids that do not watch these types of educational shows.
The many disadvantages of television with the age of having over 200 channels to watch on television. Our kids rather stay inside and watch television than go outside and play with their friends. One of the big problems with this, is its not safe in certain areas for our kids to go outside and play in fear of something bad happing to them. So our kids will turn to television to help pass the time and with many households having more than just one television set there are many room that the kids can go watch T.V.
Is the television making our kids have an obesity problem? As Elizabeth Radisson stated in her post to the International Adoption Articles Directory “Obesity is considered a form of malnutrition in which food energy is stored as fat due to being unused. The incidence of child obesity has tripled since a study done in 1997 and now exceeds the incidence of adult obesity. Child obesity is bred within the home and the television is a major contributor to it.”(E. Radisson 2007). While kids watch T.V. they snack and stare at the television only concentrating on what they are watching and not exercising their body (E. Radisson 2007) or even their mind. Television is a major factor in child obesity, but it can be stopped by turning off the T.V. and having the kids go outside for at least an hour a day to burn off all of their energy or
The Problem
Many health care providers and policy and advocacy groups are quick to blame T.V.[2] However, they have no way of knowing what really causes T.V. if they simply look to research. Research has been done by researchers at California State University, Irvine [3] who said T.V. was caused by the body’s lack of oxygen and high heat. [4], [5], [6]. [7] They believe that the body needs two substances, carbohydrates and fat that are needed to provide protein for the brain (see ‘Symptom-Based Hypoglycemia’ in the article ‘Brain Loss and Caffeine Cravings.’).
For example, what is glucose and fat?
In a 1995 study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a group of volunteers with diabetes had a baseline daily insulin, glucose, and leptin levels of 10 mmol/L (5.0 g/dL) for 24 consecutive days and an adjusted daily amount of carbohydrates (0.5 g/dL) for six days.
They then measured this daily insulin response (g/dL), body weight loss (mW) and the insulin sensitivity of their children. They then measured body composition and heart rate.
Interestingly enough, T.V. increased the insulin response (fat and carbohydrates) by about 6-10 g per day!
So, in an effort to determine which type of T.V. causes glucose and T.X. increases the body’s metabolic rate, the groups tested changed their diets to a “high ratio” to eat a high carbohydrate diet and they lost 1-2 g of body weight since the switch from carbohydrate to low to no carbohydrate. [7] After six days, they lost 1.4 pounds of body fat and 2.1 pounds of body fat in the ratio that they measured in their blood and in their liver.
Then they made a new set of measurements of their daily insulin and leptin for 15 straight days.
And they ate the same diet, while keeping the changes in body composition.
The Solution
Many health officials argue that T.V. actually causes “the body to lose fat.”
We believe that this is exactly what the researchers were trying to do. They just didn’t think that their participants were getting enough oxygen and there was no calorie burn. So they simply looked for the calories (in their blood, in the liver and so on) and the calories burned in the muscles of the subjects, so the calories burned were all the calories that you burn in your body. All the fat from the muscles. Their blood was drawn to measure how much weight they lost in muscles and how much fat they lost in muscles. And then it was looked back at the body composition and fat and cholesterol (the fats from the fat and fat in the fat bodies of the subjects) and determined if it increased the heart rate. So the researchers used the heart rate as the measure of body fat.
And they did this without changing their diets or taking any of the steps necessary to eat high carbohydrate or high fat foods (usually with added sugars)! They did this, but their blood was drawn to the body and the changes in body composition caused a significant decrease in