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Is Ekta Kapoor making you fat?
Mindless channel surfing is a major stressbuster, the city's working crowd would agree. Primetime television transmits tearjerking soaps, high stake game shows and comedies — Kasamh Se, Kaun Banega Crorepati, F.R.I.E.N.D.S and Seinfeld to name a few — that perfectly coincide with dinnertime.
What's better than popping your dinner in the microwave, and slumping onto the couch to watch a no-brainer flick on Filmy? You begin to get comfortable with this lifestyle; it becomes a clockwork pattern. And the day you miss a show, you feel like you have worked too hard; exercising takes a backseat.
Your diet suffers too. Cookery shows that make your mouth water, like Mirch Masala and Khaana Khazana, and tantalising junk food ads now fall under the term — "gastro-po*n", which stands for televised messages that encourage mindless snacking due to their impeccable presentation of food. So, the next time you see a particularly succulent-looking pizza on TV, you know it's not just an ad you are salivating over.
By: Bhairavi Jhaveri| March 22, 2007
A recent survey of 68,000 American women found that watching just 2 hours of TV every day, can make you 23% fatter. With Mumbaikars making a habit of munching their meals before the idiot box, Life@Work uncovers how TV is ruining the eating habits of 3 couch potatoes
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Mindless channel surfing is a major stressbuster, the city's working crowd would agree. Primetime television transmits tearjerking soaps, high stake game shows and comedies — Kasamh Se, Kaun Banega Crorepati, F.R.I.E.N.D.S and Seinfeld to name a few — that perfectly coincide with dinnertime.
What's better than popping your dinner in the microwave, and slumping onto the couch to watch a no-brainer flick on Filmy? You begin to get comfortable with this lifestyle; it becomes a clockwork pattern. And the day you miss a show, you feel like you have worked too hard; exercising takes a backseat.
Your diet suffers too. Cookery shows that make your mouth water, like Mirch Masala and Khaana Khazana, and tantalising junk food ads now fall under the term — "gastro-po*n", which stands for televised messages that encourage mindless snacking due to their impeccable presentation of food. So, the next time you see a particularly succulent-looking pizza on TV, you know it's not just an ad you are salivating over.
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