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Does The TV Dominate Your Free Time?

Wasting time in front of the television is almost a national pastime right now. According to the Nielsen Company then in the US on average people watch 34 hours of TV per week, that is nearly 5 hours per day that people watch. Obviously those numbers are just averages, so some people will watch a lot more and others a lot less, but it is still scary to think how much of our lives we waste in front of the TV.

I think it is the fact that LCD TVs flooded the market and drove prices down while taking up much less space that has driven the viewing figures up. Before the came onto the market a television was a huge, unwieldy and expensive item. Now kids have TVs in their bedrooms and parents use it as a method to keep them out of the way so they let them watch it pretty much all the time. Meanwhile the main TVs in the house are getting bigger and bigger, a 32 inch LCD TV is no longer good enough, or even a 42 inch television, now people want 55 and even 60 inch TVs to watch their favorite shows on.

In the Western world we now have access 24/7 to cheap processed food which is laden with a calories and unfortunately not laden with nutrients, combine that with the amount of TV we watch which has us sat down all night and probably eating that food, and it is easy to see why so many people are obese nowadays. But what can you do instead of watching all that TV?

One of the best things you can do which will be a lot of fun is to try out a new hobby. There are so many different hobbies you can try that there is something for everyone, and even if they don't get you physically active then at least they get you mentally active. Even with the most mundane hobby like stamp collecting then it has to be more rewarding that melting your brain in front of the TV all day. If you are wondering where you will get enough time to start a hobby then remember people watch 20+ hours of TV a week, so even if you just halved that you would have a lot of free time to dedicate to it. That is enough time to learn to play a musical instrument, or you could join a hiking club and go out with them, or even start learning to speak a foreign language.

Or another option would be to go back to school. Instead of hobbies then instead you could work on getting some new qualifications which could help you to get promoted at work or help you change career if you aren't happy in your current one. There are not only courses you can do at your local colleges, but there are a whole host of course you can do by distance learning now too. There are two great ideas there to not only give you more interesting things to do, but to increase your knowledge and skills in different areas and maybe even increase your career prospects, so turn off the TV and start living!
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