Mediacourse

Another correlation between the amount of tv watching and obesity, in a fairly media-materialist view point. And yes, obseity problems are getting worse, but if television is a cause or a consequence or randomly associated, was not found. The problem could very well be the amount of fast food available to kids, or even the amount of commercials of fast food per amount of tv watched. But to simply blame it on television is a mediocre answer, and to resolve the issue with less television watching isnt the best answer. Sure, kids are missing out on excercise, intellectual pursuits, and real relationships and interaction by watching television, but to blame obesity on television or atleast to use the correlation to suggest this possibility- as often done in recently published research found in newspapers/journals, seems to be an evasion of the issue- possibly even a scape-goat. what do you think? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4238386.stm