Television rots the brain. So says Professor Manfred Spitzer from the University of Ulm in Germany.
In fact he went further to suggest that watching television contributed to the deaths of 20,000 Germans a year. Long hours of viewing contributed to deaths from obesity, high cholesterol and diabetes as well as stunting the development of children’s brains, by warping their sense of taste and smell in favour of unhealthy foods. (Study quoted by Libby Purves in The Times, February 2005.)
So it seems that our obsession to live in a visual world where everything is relayed to us through a silver screen, is inadvertently sending us to an early grave. What will happen in the long run remains to be seen, but for now at least the obsession continues.
