Television has both benefits and drawbacks. While it can increase social confidence and connectivity, excessive viewing is linked to negative health outcomes like obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. Television can also negatively impact sleep, attention span, and critical thinking if it replaces real-world social and mental activities. However, television itself is not inherently harmful - it depends on how it is used. Moderation is key to gaining television's benefits while avoiding its risks.

1. Positive and negative effects of television

2. Contents
 introduction
 Positive effects of television
 Radiation
 Disease caused due to television
 Effects of television on a child
 Effects of television on an adult
 conclusion

4. Television is one of the most common
electrical appliances in our homes and almost all individuals
are exposed to it at some time or other. With regards to
children, they are among the heaviest users of television.
Television is most often exposed to a child who instantly
becomes accustomed presence. Young children spend
between 3-4 hours watching television each day. It has
played and important role in their lives and its viewing has
been activity for many of them. “T.V viewing among kids is
at 8 year high. On average , children ages 2-5 spend 32 hours
a week in front of a TV. DVDs, dvr & videos,and using a game
console. Kids ages 6-11 spend about 28 hours a week in front
of tv. The vast majority of this viewing (97%) is of live tv…..

5. POSITIVE EFFECTS
 1) Social confidence
 2)familiarity with the latest technology
 3) Exposure to new ideas, opinions and viewpoints
 4) Augmentation to real relationship
 5) Remain in touch with family and friends who live
across borders

6. setting a radiation
safety standard  LCD and plasma screens don't
give off any radiation at
all. They don't use high-energy
electrons. It’s a different type
of technology.
 But Televisions
give off very low energy x-ray
radiation. So, if you're sitting
close to a cathode ray tube,
whether a computer monitor, a
television screen, a radar set or
anything else with that type of
technology, you're going to be
getting low doses of x-ray
radiation.

7. DO TV SETS GIVE
OFF X-RAYS ?
Televisions really do give off
radiation. But having said that, it’s only a
little bit of radiation and it’s not that
dangerous. What happens is that
anything with a cathode ray tube, a tube
where you shoot high-energy electrons at
some sort of screen, when those
electrons hit the screen, they give off very
low energy x-ray radiation. This is the
same way that x-rays are produced in
regular x-ray tubes. So, if you're sitting
close to a cathode ray tube, whether a
computer monitor, a television screen, a
radar set or anything else with that type
of technology, you're going to be getting
low doses of x-ray radiation.

8. Growing popularity of television over other
medias

9.  Increase in the risk of heart disease
 Disruption of sleep
 Increase in the risk of diabetes
 Increase in the risk of obesity
 Development of attention deficit disorder
 Increase in the risk of asthma
 Increase in mindless eating
 Negative effects on metal development
 Increase in eye stain
 Portrayal of aggressive behavior
 Reduction of social interaction

10. Not only humans animals are affected by television too
Is this for real? A dog watching
television.
Best sleeping place ever

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12. TELEVISION IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH
 Watching television means
inactivity, and inactivity has been
linked with obesity and heart
disease.
 A recent research study conducted
at the Harvard School of Public
Health indicates that watching too
much television can significantly
increase the risk of developing
obesity and type 2 diabetes. Not
surprisingly, another study carried
out at the University of Rhode
Island found that prolonged
television watching decreases
viewers’ sense of self-efficacy in
maintaining personal health.

13. TELEVISION FEEDS YOU FALSE DATA
 One of the most harmful effects of
watching television is that
television appears to portray or
report reality. In fact, it just allows
us to get a small glimpse of what’s
really going on. This particularly
happens when watching TV
newscasts. When we watch a 30
minutes newscast, we usually
believe that what it is showing us is
all that there is to see. After all, if
there was more to see, wouldn’t
television show us more?
Unfortunately most people accept
whatever television is feeding
them, without ever casting a doubt
on its truthfulness.

14. Television makes you dumb and leads to isolation
 Another amazingly harmful effect of watching
television is the fact it can hinder our ability to
think. Having talking heads continuously giving
us quick information, opinion, analysis and
criticism for just about everything, allows us to
stop using our critical thinking. In this way, we can
be easily misinformed and manipulated.
 Certainly there are a few programs on TV that are
educational and interesting, but the majority
of television programs are simply trash. And so
we rarely find a program on TV that requires us to
think. Television programming is designed in
such a way so as to match our attention spam, and
that is why almost all programs are 30 to 60
minutes long. In addition, television programs
rarely dedicate the entire program to a single
topic. Hence, not only cannot television programs
provide any decent thought to stimulate
discussion, but they present information in such a
way that we cannot digest it properly. And so we
can easily form opinions without allowing the
information to be first filtered through our mind,
and while we might think that we become more
knowledgeable, in reality we become dumb.

15. IS WATCHING TV
HARMFUL?

16. • TELEVISION HAS HUGE IMPACT ON SOCIETY.
TELEVISION HAS BOTH ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES. IT IS AN AUDIO-VISUAL
ELECTRONIC DEVICE OF THE MODERN AGE. IT
HAS FILLED LIFE WITH A NEW CHARM THAT CAN
NEVER BE DISMISSED SUMMARILY AS HARMFUL.
 TELEVISION, IN ITSELF, IS NOT HARMFUL. TELEVISION BECOMES
HARMFUL TO THE SOCIETY WHEN IT IS MISUSED. THE TELEVISION IS
A DOMESTIC COMMODITY OF EVERY HOUSE. IT IS A SOURCE OF
ENTERTAINMENT IN HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, PUBLIC PLACES,
RAILWAY STATIONS, ETC. IT CATERS TO THE VARIOUS NEEDS OF THE
SOCIETY AT LARGE. TELEVISION HAS MULTIPLE CHANNELS AND HAS
A WIDE VARIETY OF PROGRAMS.
CONCLUSION

17. Comparison between positive and negative
sides of television
Positive effect Negative effect
 Excitement
 Laughter
 Learn about different
people and places
 Educational and
Informative
 Gives families to laugh
over something
 Television is bad for your
health:-
 Television feeds you false
information
 Television wastes your
time
 Television makes you
dumb