Translation of "Fernsehkonsum" in English

Moreover, heavy TV viewing has contributed to social fragmentation.

Certainly, heavy TV viewing is bad for one’s physical and mental health.

First, heavy TV viewing brings little pleasure.

There is a strong link between TV viewing and obesity in children.

Our average screen time has increased by 11 minutes since 2001/2002.

Studies point to a link between TV viewing and excess weight.

We strictly control the time spent watching television.

Whether watching television for hours will indeed produce a healthier nation is very much to be doubted.

Perhaps TV is rewiring heavy viewers’ brains and impairing their cognitive capacities.

Recent figures4 show that TV viewing in Europe has increased in most Member States in the past year.

Some researchers have attributed various autism spectrum disorders (ADHD, Asperger’s) to the exposure to television.

I would add that while audiences may be focused on a small number of programmes, European citizens have, nonetheless, a far wider choice in their viewing, thanks to a range of technologies.

We know that ADS is closely connected to excessive television consumption and over-stimulation.

Robert Putnam, the leading scholar of America’s declining sense of community, has found that TV viewing is the central explanation of the decline of “social capital,” the trust that binds communities together.

Indeed, by now the evidence that television watching is a dangerous habit has grown to such proportions that it is a wonder that stronger warnings and effective prevention have not been adopted.

Among the many findings is that watching too much television induces passivity, both at the level of neural functioning and of behavior and that it interferes with learning and reduces political and civic participation.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recently warned that TV viewing by young children is dangerous for their brain development, and called on parents to keep children under two away from the TV and similar media.

Mass advertising is contributing to many other consumer addictions that imply large public-health costs, including excessive TV watching, gambling, drug use, cigarette smoking, and alcoholism.

Most countries invest to measure GNP, but spend little to identify the sources of poor health (like fast foods and excessive TV watching), declining social trust, and environmental degradation.

The average television daily viewing time in 2002 remained significant across all the Member States, with marginal changes over 2001.

This transforms television from an objective viewing experience – staring at a small screen – to a subjective viewing experience, i.e the eye wanders within the frame to different elements.

The acceding countries have similar patterns of viewing time ranging form 165 minutes in Slovenia to 256 minutes in Hungary.

Parental ratings of how much television a child watches are associated with the child’s body mass index (BMI).

It is intended for use by parents to manage their children's television viewing.

The proportion of people that watch television on a daily basis is at 82% for the Netherlands and 81% for Italy among the highest in Europe, but this does not prove any causal link between television viewership and attitudes to media coverage.

We have become a society watches TV, listens to the radio drones made a slave of the tube and radio.

In 2007, the Rolex Series saw significant increases once again in at-track attendance and television viewership, with huge fields and several close finishes.

Otherwise, the television is given too much importance by the parents' behavior, and the child believes that it can not live without watching television.