The Art of Chill: Stimulants

1. Watching TV

"Watching TV spoils your brain" is a familiar, yet science-based warning of our parents. There have been many studies on excessively-exposed-to-TV children's brains, demonstrating changes in both structure and reactants (still, we can't leap to a conclusion whether it's abnormal or detrimental). Since as a considerable number of other surveys have also identified how over-watching TV is related to violence and antisocial trends.

A 2013 study by Japanese scientists facilitated the very first anti-TV movements. It, accordingly, offered concrete evidence that the more children watched, the more significant certain brain areas (to illustrate, the hypothalamus, sensor area, and visual cortex) developed. Ultimately, as a child kept being exposed to TV, his communication IQ got more gravely deteriorated.

Growth in the visual cortex size indicated that the eyes were "exercised" while watching the movie, which is obnoxious. The thickened hypothalamus, however, was a trait of personality disorders, aggression, and emotional disorders.

Other studies have proved an 8% increase in depressive symptoms and a 27% surge in the committing crimes rate in adulthood for every additional hour of TV exposure in childhood. For every two extra hours, the incidence of type 2 diabetes also inflated by 20%.

A 2013 study by Japanese scientists facilitated the very first anti-TV movements. It, accordingly, offered concrete evidence that the more children watched, the more significant certain brain areas (to illustrate, the hypothalamus, sensor area, and visual cortex) developed. Ultimately, as a child kept being exposed to TV, his communication IQ got more gravely deteriorated.

Growth in the visual cortex size indicated that the eyes were "exercised" while watching the movie, which is innoxious. The thickened hypothalamus, however, was a trait of personality disorders, aggression, and emotional disorders.

Other studies have proved an 8% increase in depressive symptoms and a 27% surge in the committing crimes rate in adulthood for every additional hour of TV exposure in childhood. For every two extra hours, the incidence of type 2 diabetes also inflated by 20%.

That said, we couldn't, again, jump to a conclusion and blame TVs. All these studies, as mentioned above, rather evidenced the correlation instead of the causal relationship. Regrading the chicken or the egg causality dilemma, we can't know for sure whether an excessive exposure to TV-bred crime-granting behaviors or those born aggressive prefer to glue their eyes to the TV.

A new study has it that we should be wary of hasty conclusions. Joseph Schwartz, a criminologist, carried out a pretty much similar survey on the crime-TV relationship and achieved the same result: the more one watched, the more likely he would later commit crimes.

When he examined siblings, the correlation, nevertheless, vanished. Instead, the researcher concluded that genetics was in charge of those negative psychological manifestations, and the watching time as well. At a similar stake, those more prone to depression and obesity, often splurged time lounging in front of the TV compared to their energetic counterparts.

To become a criminal is, like this, half genetic and half environmental. These environmental factors vary so dramatically that they include the nutrients through the placenta, the amniotic fluid quality, and the plants surrounding the house. TV, in a like manner, albeit an environmental factor, doesn't necessarily play a critical role in crime committing behaviors.

Things still are fuzzy. Research, for the time being, is grounded at the conclusion that TV might not be of any correlation to human aggression.

Therefore, children's exposure to TV is not detrimental, as long as they keep participating in other healthy activities. Sitting still and playing lego for 2 hours straight could be as harmful as watching TV, insomuch as you would be, to all appearances, as fat as a beached whale and suffer as much from depression later.

Regardless of either watching TV, surfing Facebook, or working online for hours straight, we are, by mistake, letting time that should be spent on reading, music, sports, walking the dog, or hanging out pass by. We're then, causing ourselves to suffer from double damages: engaging in more negative activities and less positive ones.

Take time reckoning with this.

2. Stimulants

Dissidents of stimulant legalization often argued that: "It would be one way or another breed chaos. Were everyone euphoric, who would work?".

Things are not that straightforward. To put it into perspective, alcohol has also been legalized, and even when it could hardly ever get people as excited as marijuana, who on earth would drink while at work?