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12-year sentence for watching TV

David Couchman

On average, we spend 12 years of our lives watching television. By the age of six, a child has already spent one whole year in front of the TV.

Television is responsible for a wide range of child health and development issues — it may be a bigger factor in obesity than either diet or exercise. It’s also implicated in half of all violent crime.