What better way to relax after a hard day's work than to watch TV? To simply say that TV makes people fat is absurd. Its everyone's right to watch TV, and when combined in healthy doses with a healthy lifestyle, there should be no problem.

I think that it's all up to the person and their lifestyle. . They can watch TV for 5 hours a day and choose to work out as well. . It's weak to blame it on TV.

Don't blame the TV, blame the parents for letting the kid sit in front of it. Though there is a link, it all comes down to not being able to blame an electronic device. Eat healthy, go for a walk sometime. Pay attention to the kids emotional welfare.

TV makes Americans fat in the same way forks and spoons do.

If you haven't noticed, America isn't the only country that has TVs. All of the industrialized first world countries have television, it just so happens that the fattest one in the world does too. If you travel around the country, you'll notice that when you go to places with different foods, so does the average weight. Last I checked, Colorado is the leanest state in the union, do you think it's a coincidence that they also have one of the highest vegan/vegetarian per capita rates as well? When I visited Michigan as a teen, I marveled at how many enormously fat people were there. It's no wonder, however, since the area I was in was known for its fudge and candy.

Food and eating habits have a much larger effect on weight than TV ever could. You can sit in front of a TV for six hours a day, but if all you eat is salad, you're not going to get fat. But, if you eat nothing but BK quadruple stackers all day, and you still regularly go to the gym, you're probably going to be fat as a whale in no time. Until televisions can beam fat into the bodies of its viewers, it will never be able to make you fat.