That's Fit

The invention of the TV seems to coincide perfectly with our downfall as a healthy and active society, and most of the news you hear linking health and TV are not on "the boob tube's" side. But unless you're willing to move to the mountains, live off the earth, and become a hermit there's really no avoiding the TV altogether. We need some TV, if just to stay educated and in touch, right?

Well here's one article that agrees. In a recent study TV watching was actually shown to help healthy habits, not hinder them. Of course what you're watching matters, and the study was fairly limited in that it only tracked people watching one program: ER. But it seems that after people watched a series of ER episodes involving a teenager with high blood pressure who was advised to exercise and eat more fruits and veggies they were 65% more likely to make healthy changes to their diet. And it was also noted that after Oprah made mention of a Chinese weight loss tea the hits to the website skyrocketed.

So we know television is a powerful tool, now if we could just figure out how to use it for good! When an ER episode is followed by a Burger King commercial do they cancel each other out?