Too much boob tube also makes you weaker, research shows
You’ve accepted the idea that TV makes you
dumber. You know there are lots of more edifying things you could be
doing with your time than cheering on the contestants on "Survivor."
And
unless you’re working out to an exercise video, you know those hours
sprawled out in front of the screen are going to make you fatter — not
to mention the impact of all that junk food you’ve been tempted to
scarf down during the commercial breaks.
But you’ll be surprised to learn the host of other bad things TV can do to you.
1. TV makes you deader. TV-viewing
is a pretty deadly pastime, research suggests. No matter how much time
you spend in the gym, every hour you spend in front of the TV increases
your risk of dying from heart disease, according to a recent report in
Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Australian
researchers studied 8,800 adult men and women for an average of six
years and found that every hour spent in front of the TV translated
into an 11 percent increase in the risk of death from any cause, a 9
percent increase in the risk of death from cancer and an 18 percent
increase in the risk of death from cardiovascular disease. So, compared
to people who watched less than two hours of TV a day, those who
watched four or more hours a day had a 46 percent higher risk of death
from any cause and an 80 percent higher risk of death due to
cardiovascular disease. And that was true even among people who didn’t
smoke, were thin, ate healthy diets and had low blood pressure and
cholesterol.
Makers of natural-health products say they are bracing for widespread
layoffs and millions of dollars in losses after Canada’s pharmacy
regulators issued a surprise directive recently urging druggists to
stop selling unlicensed natural remedies.
The order affects thousands of herbal treatments, multi-vitamins
and other products, most of them waiting for approval from Health
Canada under a backlogged, five-year-old program to regulate
natural-health goods.
The National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA)
says pharmacists cannot be assured the products are safe until they are
granted a government licence, and should not sell them in those
circumstances. “Pharmacists are obliged to hold the health and safety
of the public or patient as their first and foremost consideration,”
said the association’s recently issued position statement.
As the Roman Empire drew to a close, the poet and satirist Juvenal
wrote about an infantilized populace that had surrendered its
birthright of political involvement.
“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People
have abdicated our duties,” he wrote, “for the People who once upon a
time handed out military command, high civil office, legions —
everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two
things: bread and circuses.” The Latin phrase panem et circenses is often translated as “bread and games.”
In America, circa 2010, the phrase bread and circuses, or bread and
games, has become what passes for our national anthem. The masses long
ago abdicated their civic duties and have since forsaken the
Constitution — and are in fact almost completely ignorant of it — and
have abandoned their birthright of liberty in favor of mindless and
indeed infantilized entertainment.
It is not merely the gladiatorial Super Bowl. It is an entire
popular culture steeped in meaningless celebrity worship. Far too many
Americans reject political involvement — their birthright — for a
vicarious and perverse obsession with the minutiae of manufactured
stars and starlets.
It is no mistake Aldous Huxley used the phrase in Brave New World Revisited as an example of one of the ideas he used as a theme in Brave New World.
Steve Bonta, in an article published in The New American, compares and contrasts Huxley and Orwell:
What Huxley understood more acutely than Orwell is that
it is easier to enslave a people by seduction than by coercion. In the
words of social critic Neil Postman, “what Orwell feared were those who
would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason
to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one…. As
Huxley remarked…, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever
on the alert to oppose tyranny ‘failed to take into account man’s
almost infinite appetite for distractions.’ In 1984, Huxley added,
people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are
controlled by inflicting pleasure.”
The Super Bowl event is a scientifically created mass mental illness
that exploits man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions. It is
the bellwether of tyranny.
In the video below, Alex Jones calls on each of us to remember what
really matters on this Super Bowl weekend. Forget the pizza, nachos and
the half-time musicians and educate yourself, your family and your
neighbors on what the globalists have done by design to our culture and
our very humanity.
It is more than a football game. It is a primary example of the fact the future of humanity hangs in the balance.
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Children are reaching the age of 3 without being able to say a word,
according to a survey that also found boys are almost twice as likely
to struggle to learn to speak as girls.
The average age for a baby to speak their first word is 10 to 11
months. However, a significant minority (4 per cent) of parents
reported that their child said nothing until they were 3.
Toddlers between the ages of 2 and 3 should be able to use up to 300
words, including adjectives, and be able to link words together,
according to I CAN, the children’s communication charity. Late speech
development can lead to problems, such as low achievement at school or
mental health problems.
Of course, life could be different. Society could be intelligently organized to meet the real needs of the general population. You and others like you could collectively fight to free yourselves from our domination. But you don't know that. In fact, you can't even imagine that another way of life is possible. And that's probably the greatest, most significant achievement of our system — robbing you of your imagination, your creativity, your ability to think and act for yourself. So we'd truly like to thank you from the bottom of our heartless hearts. Your loyal sacrifice makes possible our corrupt luxury; your work makes our system work. Thanks so much for "knowing your place" - without even knowing it!
"It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts."- Robert H. Schuller
