How much of your life does watching TV steal from you?

There's no question about it, watching TV is addictive. It's so easy just to switch on and zone out.

And like any addiction, even when you have decided you will watch less TV, before you know it, you're watching again.

But how much time is it stealing from you?

And how valuable is that time really?

Do you want to live your own life or other peoples' ?

Just think - in future many people's memories of their life will really be memories from TV shows - not their own memories at all! Based on current averages, by the age of eighty, eleven solid years of someone's time would have been spent watching TV. Is that really living life? Do you want to watch life from the sidelines or be a full participant?

Watching too much TV is bad for your brain - fact.

Watching too much TV exhausts what psychologists call the orientation response, making you feel tired and depressed. It may feel like it relaxes you but it actually agitates and tires your brain.

Added to that, brain scans show that TV inhibits your thinking brain. Within thirty seconds of starting watching TV the critical part of the brain shuts down leaving us less 'human' than we would normally be.

TV is like a magic genie that hypnotizes for its own ends. Too much TV tends to make us fat and lazy. And when you watch less TV you become one of life's players.

What could you could be doing if TV didn't steal so much of your attention?

Download 'Watch Less TV' now and claim the stolen hours back.