The December 2007 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine published a study showing that watching a lot of TV is linked to higher blood pressure in obese children.
And watching a lot of television is linked to obesity too, which causes the higher blood pressure. Children who watch a lot of television are not getting enough exercise.
In addition they may be eating junk food, another health risk. They may be eating fatty and salty food that is known to increase blood pressure. They are eating more but not getting more exercise to burn those calories.
The study looked at 546 children from age 4 to age 17. Each of these children was obese and nearly half of them had high blood pressure as a result of their obesity.
The study found that the more obese the children were, the more television they watched. There was a direct link there. Also not surprisingly most of the kids with high blood pressure watched over 2 hours of TV a day.
And obese children watching 2 to 4 hours of TV a day had a 2.5 times greater risk of high blood pressure than those who watched less TV. This risk was raised to more than 3 times that of others when they watched more than 4 hours of TV a day.
Indeed television is considered a stressor. Psychological stress is increased from television watching, and is considered a possibility in the raising of the blood pressure of the obese kids.
Psychological stress from watching TV can affect a child in many ways, especially as years of TV-watching pass. Stress can change how body fat accumulates on their bodies and how it is distributed.
And psychological stress directly affects blood pressure. Those are immediate results. The stress is perceived; it does not come from within but from their perception.
The researchers of the study advise limiting the time children can watch TV to under 2 hours a day. God's advice? Watching TV even for a few minutes every day is too much.
The psychological stress experienced from watching television wars against the Peace of God, and when children watch too much TV throughout their lives they never have a chance to experience the Peace of God as they grow older.
And TV will impact you and your children more than robbing you of peace. Television tends to promote the natural person and war against the spiritual person. It is a weapon of the enemy in your spiritual war, and watching TV is surrendering.
When you are sealed God calls you to fight the battle. You become closer to Him, and you do not just have His Peace but you also begin to share thoughts and feelings with Him. Television is like a wall erected between you and God.
When you are sealed you are brought close to God. You break down that wall television builds and any other that separates you from God. And taking away their TV is one of the best (and cheapest) gifts you can give your children when you receive the Seal.
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