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How much meat do we eat? | Healthy Living — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:28:30 +0000

[...] like in the TV watching discussion, this figure takes into account everyone, vegetarians, and people like me that probably eat much [...]

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:28:29 +0000

I think it is addiction, lol. I was like that too, but then we put on the news channel that repeats every 15 minutes, so we are not glued to the tv all the time.

BTW have you ever had this happened to you, when you watch food commercial and you are hungry, you could actually taste the food in your mouth, lol.

Anna

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By: Will

Will — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:30:50 +0000

You raise a good point in your last sentence, Steve…not that your points aren’t always good. I believe the research was only watching TV. I thought I saw in one place that they did not count rented movies. That would not really make sense, but if true would bring my average daily time down to about 10 minutes since I am usually watching a rented movie and not broadcast TV.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:39:55 +0000

Will,
I agree that 5 hours is pretty mind boggling. And as you point out, if you and I and others we know are doing 1 to 2 hours, then that means others must be doing 8 to 9 hours to arrive at the average of 5. This reminds me of the movie the Matrix, where the people are living in pods and are plugged into the Matrix and don’t know it. It also reminds me of a movie about a cable guy? with Jim Carrey I think, and at the end he unplugs the town from TV, and there is just this telling dead silence. Maybe I watch too many movies… ~ Steve, the trade show guru

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By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:01:36 +0000

I have to confess that our tv is pretty much always on, though we are rarely devoting more than a fragment of our attention to it. At the moment as I type this, I am surfing the web and watching a dvd of American Graffiti, the old Ron Howard movie. Alans last blog post..Same-Sex Marriage (YA)

By: Will

Will — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:51:25 +0000

The total was only TV watching. They had another breakout for computer and video games. Those were highest in the younger age groups which makes sense.

I still can not get my mind around the AVERAGE being over 5 hours. If you have a job and sleep, that means the only other thing the average person does is watch TV.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:29:13 +0000

Hey Will,
I thought it was actually higher than 5 hours. I just don’t know where people find the time for it after all the time we spend on the internet.
Actually, I wonder if the study includes computer and video game time. As to being doomed, I think it was already this way when I was a kid and we have survived so far. I think we have more pressing problems, but hope we’ll make it. But don’t get me wrong, I think most TV is simply soda pop for the brain. I shudder to think of the inanity one must watch to make up 5 hours a day. Steve (PS. I would be 1 to 1-1/2 hours a day, after the kids are in bed, and I have a stationary bike I usually ride when I watch, well, 45minutes on the bike is enough…)

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