I’ve probably mentioned this before but there is no TV in our home. We have a computer with a TV card so it’s not like we’re hardcore anti BLACK BOX OF SATAN. I don’t watch daytime television but yesterday, my little one spent the day with his naani and instead of doing things like getting stuff done around the house, I completely stuffed around and indulged in daytime television.

I feel so dirty.

First I watched Ellen. She does this thing:

And I believe she does this EVERY episode! She just has to say, “and now I will dance,” and the crowd goes nuts. I can see why. Awesome dance moves!! She’s cute and funny and has lovely blue eyes. If Ellen was a guy, I’d totally turn for her*

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Next, I tuned in to The View

THIS MY FRIENDS is what happens when you get a handful of Type A personalities, all with differing opinions and put them in front of a camera. Who thought this would make good television?

NOBODY listens to what the other person is saying, they’re all too busy trying to talk over each other but again, nobody is listening.  Here’s an idea. You only get to talk when you are holding the talking stick. Or how about this one?  First I talk, then you talk then I talk then you talk. It isn’t so difficult, I am sure you can manage it. Or this? Put your hand up if you want to talk and even if you start waving your hand and standing up saying, “oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! oh!” your turn will come when we are all ready to listen. Even if you holding up your hand means you need the toilet. Hold it in.  Or how does this sound? Until everyone is quiet, the car doesn’t move. Or here’s another one-if you don’t keep quiet mum can’t concentrate and then she is going to have an accident and then we will all end up in the hospital and do you really want that? NO YOU DON’T. I DON’T WANT TO DIE. DO YOU WANT TO DIE? WELL THEN JUST BE QUIET WHILE MUM IS DRIVING PLEASE!

Ahem.

Then I sneaked in a few minutes of Days of Our Lives. Does it surprise anyone that the SAME people are on the show when I used to watch it with my dear departed grandmother FIFTEEN years ago?

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Then husband sent me this little link the other day:

TV linked to asthma

So this is what they did. They took children and studied them from birth to 12 years of age.

Every year, the research team would ask the parents if their children had been wheezing, coughing or complaining of shortness of breath or chest tightness.

At the same time, they were monitoring how much TV the children watched.

Children who watched two hours or more a day of television were more likely to be diagnosed with asthma. But get this:

“One has to remember this is a questionnaire based study rather than a physical examination or a diagnostic test which would support a label of asthma.

“But even with these limitations, I think it points to the fact that children who are short of breath with exercise may have asthma.

“However children who are more sedentary are more likely to gain weight and if you gain weight you are likely to have a reduced exercise tolerance and also get short of breath when you are challenged with exercise.

“So firstly, one has to presume that the diagnosis of asthma is correct in these children and given a large sample size of 3,000 that is probably a reasonable thing to assume.”

So, if you are overweight or just generally unfit you may be exercise intolerant, you may cough and have shortness of breath when exercising. That could be a reason you prefer to sit in front of the TV instead of being outside. But let’s just forget that for a minute and just say that you have asthma, OK? We won’t actually get a trained physician to examine you, we won’t take radiographs or do any other diagnostic tests, we will just make this link that if you are watch TV it means you will get asthma.

OK?

*geddit??????

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