Contents:
- Medical Video: 8 Stages of Marathon Running
- What is binge watching?
- What are the dangers of watching a TV series in a marathon?
- What should be done so as not to be addicted to watching the TV series?
Medical Video: 8 Stages of Marathon Running
Watching Korean drama series or other TV series is now popular with every age group. Many people, especially teenagers, are willing to spend time watching several episodes at once, even more than 5 episodes a day. If you are one of them, this means you are doing binge watching aka TV series marathon. Although it's fun, this habit is actually not good for health, you know! How can? Here's the explanation.
What is binge watching?
Have you ever spent a weekend just sitting while watching your favorite TV series? If yes, how much time do you spend just to enjoy the film presented? One hour or maybe up to three more hours?
Reporting from Reader's Digest, a survey showed that as many as 61 percent of people in the world do binge watching aka TV series marathon. Someone can be said to do binge watching if he is accustomed to watching serials between two to six consecutive episodes, without pauses.
Sometimes this habit tends to be considered fun and fun. Some people are just looking forward to the weekend to just unwind through interesting television shows. In fact, some experts are not sure that binge watching is a good habit for your brain and body.
When you watch your favorite TV series for several consecutive episodes, the brain releases chemicals called dopamine, aka happy hormones. The longer you watch it, the brain will continue to produce these hormones so that you will be happier and lead to addiction.
This condition becomes a kind of cycle. When you stop watching TV series, dopamine levels will begin to decrease slowly. As a result, you will do the same thing again to supply the happy hormone. That's why you become addicted to watching Korean drama series or other TV series.
What are the dangers of watching a TV series in a marathon?
The negative effect of watching the TV series in the marathon is the most obvious is addictive. For example, you intend to watch only three episodes, but you have unwittingly spent six episodes at a time. Over time, this can make you lazy to move, even lazy to socialize to become asocial.
According to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, adults who watch TV series for more than three hours each day have a high risk of premature death. Because, sitting too long can trigger various diseases, including diabetes, disease, heart disease, and cancer.
Not only in adults, TV viewing habits are also not good for children. According to a study in 2015, kindergarten children who are accustomed to watching TV for one to two hours each day have a 50 to 60 percent risk of being overweight. In fact, as many as 58 to 73 percent of children are at risk of experiencing obesity earlier than their peers.
Watching the TV series in fact also interferes with the child's eye health. This is evidenced by ASAPScience who found that children who often watch TV tend to experience myopia or nearsightedness.
What should be done so as not to be addicted to watching the TV series?
Basically, not all TV viewing habits endanger health. As long as you do it only to fill your spare time on weekends, this is actually fine to do.
Conversely, if you marathon a TV series to obstruct activities and interactions with people around, this means you have started to withdraw from the social environment. Now, this is the time for you to take a break to calm your mind.
Before you start watching, limit the number of episodes you will watch at one time. At least, just two to three episodes just don't make you addicted. Remember, try to be consistent with the schedule you make. Slowly, this will help you escape the shadow of the danger of watching excessive TV series.
