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Trash Your TV!
Reduce or eliminate TV for your health, your family, your friends, your community, and your life
A regular column by Katherine A. Westphal 
TV touches almost every part of our lives in a negative way. It takes away our time from our family, friends, and neighbors. It turns us into obese couch potatoes. It makes us more violent. It turns us into consumers, and more.
- Imagine having four extra hours per day - . . .every day (updated May 30, 2007)
- TV Time: How much television do you really watch? - It may be more than you realize. (updated May 29, 2007)
- Fighting over the TV Remote Control: Is it a life or death issue in your household? - Four solutions to give you peace and quiet (updated May 16, 2007)
- Violence on TV continues unabated - How concerned parents can respond (updated May 13, 2007)
- Are loud commercials bugging you? - Four solutions to give you peace and quiet (updated Jan 11, 2007)
- Why you can't count on the FCC to control the smut on TV - Why you can't count on the FCC to control the smut on TV (updated Jan 6, 2007)
- TV Stereotypes - Why you may believe all men are jerks (updated Dec 10, 2006)
- "The Secret" and TV - How Watching TV May Help Manifest Violence, Poverty, and General Negativity (updated Dec 6, 2006)
- Nielsen says TV watching at record levels - Two simple strategies to reclaim some of your family time from the TV (updated Sep 23, 2006)
- TV Addiction Quiz - Does TV Run Your Life? (updated Sep 18, 2006)
- Media Addiction Quiz for Teens - Do TV, Video Games and Computers Run Your Life? (updated Aug 22, 2006)
- The Awful Truth About Television: TV Corrodes Community and Democracy - Part 10 of "The Awful Truth About Television" series (updated Jun 14, 2006)
- The Awful Truth About Television - Fake News and other reasons not to watch TV news (updated Jun 14, 2006)
- America's TV addiction - It's a matter of time, a lot of time. (updated Jun 6, 2006)
- Getting kids away from TV - It's not "Mission Impossible" for Tom Cruise (updated Jun 4, 2006)
- The Awful Truth About Television: Sexual content encourages teens to experiment - TV content does matter (updated Mar 31, 2006)
- The Awful Truth About Television: Why kids NAG - Those cute commercials are worse than you think (updated Mar 31, 2006)
- The Awful Truth About Television: "Heavy" TV watchers are twice as likely to be obese - TV makes you fat! Turn off your TV to help lose weight (updated Mar 31, 2006)
- The Awful Truth About Television: Family time suffers when kids get only 38 minutes of parents' time - Turn off your TV today to begin creating a new life with your partner and children. (updated Mar 31, 2006)
- The Awful Truth About Television: The little box that transformed society - What are the costs? (updated Mar 31, 2006)
- Madonna is right: "TV is Trash" - Top 10 Reasons to Trash Your TV (updated Oct 23, 2005)
- "Mommy, when I grow up I wanna be a couch potato!" - "...Just like you" (updated Oct 23, 2005)
- All That You Can't Leave Behind - Creating a better life following the hurricane disasters (updated Oct 23, 2005)
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