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Study Shows TV Makes Kids Fat, Computers Don't
Xemu writes "Computers don't make children fat, but watching TV for the same length of time does. This is shown by a recent Swedish study of all school children in Lund's county conducted by RN Pernilla Garmy. The results were clear: The child's obesity was directly affected by placing a TV in the child's room, but placing a computer in the room had no effect at all. One theory is that it's common to have a snack in front of the TV, while a computer requires a more active user, for example when chatting or playing games."
Computers are awesome.
Abuse of apostrophe's make baby Je'su's cry.
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Personally, I've noticed the same thing, and I think it's because of the interaction. A television simply feeds you information, and you accept it. That makes you quite adept at just accepting information. In contract, a computer, even used for only playing games, requires some critical thought to decide what to do next.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Repeating as needed, may reduce weight as part of a calorie controlled diet.
All the free porn is on the internet, that is a calorie burn when done properly.
I found that I get caught up in the computer and what I'm working on and forget to stop and eat. When I get really focused on my work I'll forget to stop and eat and when I'm playing a new game I may only eat once a day for the first weekend.
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Brain activity does burn some calories. Perhaps not much, but it's still doing it. And TV watching does require less thinking.
A quick googling offered this as a starting point.