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Want Healthier Entertainment?
Keep the Violence, Ditch the Food
For decades parents, educators, and mental health professionals have been campaigning against violence in entertainment, fearing it increases real-life violence. Izzy Kalman, a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and expert in bullying, claims we are worrying about the wrong problem. The real danger is not violence in entertainment - it is food.
The U.S. government has recently declared obesity an epidemic. Two out of three Americans are overweight and one out of three is obese. The damage caused by overeating to our health and self-esteem is practically incalculable. But the murder rate in the country is only 5.5 out of 100,000. We are far more likely to be hurt by overeating than by violence.
Kalman’s research sheds light on this observation. He has been conducting surveys of mental health professionals and educators who attend his national seminar, Turning Bullies into Buddies. One survey items is: After watching people enjoying food on TV, I feel an urge to eat. Another is: After watching a violent movie, I feel an urge to injure or kill people.
Of 1174 respondents, 36% answered “Yes” to the item about food. For the item about violence, only 0.8% - less than one per cent! – answered “Yes”.
This means that we are about fifty times more likely to feel an urge to eat after viewing food than to feel an urge for violence after viewing violence. Hundreds of people can sit in a crowded theater watching a violent film and no fights break out. Yet the average person watches several hours of TV per day, sitting passively on the couch, with images of food driving him to the refrigerator during commercials. Is it any wonder we are becoming so fat?
Kalman says that attempts to prove that violent entertainment leads to real life violence are misguided. Violence statistics in the US are lower than ever, while graphic violence on the screen is greater than ever. He says there is a simple reason why food in entertainment is more dangerous than violence. Eating is a positive biological need. If we didn’t eat, we would die, so Mother Nature rewards eating with pleasure. Viewing food therefore stimulates an urge to eat. But violence is a negative biological need. It causes pain and damage. Mother Nature has programmed us to avoid violence unless we feel it is absolutely necessary. Just because we watch it, it doesn’t make us want to do it.
So stop feeling guilty about enjoying violent entertainment. It’s much healthier for you than watching food.
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Kalman, author of Bullies to Buddies: How to turn your enemies into friends!, regularly presents his uncnventional views in a monthly email newsletter and conducts his own research surveys to explain the mysteries of social problems. A recent survey-based article explained why food and sex in entertainment are far more dangerous to society than violence in entertainment
Kalman’s website http://www.bullies2buddies.com/home.html, provides free online manuals that have been helping students, parents and teachers reduce bullying and aggression. His thought-provoking articles can be accessed at the “Read Newsletters” http://www.bullies2buddies.com/news/index.html sidebar
Kalman’s techniques are currently helping about 90% of victims
free themselves from the bullying cycle.
To learn more…about a solution that works, attend any one of Izzy Kalman’s live seminars during the May/June http://www.bullies2buddies.com/services/workshops.html Seminar Tour in SD, NE, IA, AL, LA, MS, FL GA, OH, PA, MO, OK and TN.
“‘Bullies to Buddies’ utilizes wisdom of the ages to explain common psychological phenomena and empower all of us. I recommend this to anyone looking for real techniques to help themselves and others.”
Dr. Steven Sussman, Psychologist,
Director Child & Teen Success Centers of NY & NJ
Based on the acclaimed book
Izzy Kalman, MS, NCSP, is a nationally renowned author, speaker, and expert on bullying and anger control. His seminar, “Turning Bullies into Buddies: A Quick, Powerful, and Fun Way to Teach Kids How to Stop Being Victims,” sponsored by Cross Country Education, is available to mental health professionals, educators and parents throughout the U.S. A career school psychologist and psychotherapist for more than 25 years, Kalman’s simple yet innovative methods are also detailed in his book for kids ages 10 and up, Bullies to Buddies: How to turn your enemies into friends! ©2005, $15.00 http://thewisdompages.com/book.html , soft cover, and his audio CD program, “How to Stop Being Teased and Bullies without Really Trying” ©2001, $20. http://thewisdompages.com/audiocd.html .
"This book would have kept me out of the principal's office during grade school. Fantastic! I agree 100% with Kalman’s approach. This is the perfect book for all of us 10 years old and up...parents or kids...victims or bullies!"
Newton Hightower, Founder and Director
The Center for Anger Resolution, Inc.
Bestselling Author of Anger Busting 101
FREE Online Manuals
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Izzy Kalman’s website provides complete free online manuals that teach kids, parents and teachers how to easily reduce bullying while increasing their resilience, independence and emotional maturity. See Kalman’s FREE online manual for kids, How to Stop Being Teased and Bullied without Really Trying http://www.bullies2buddies.com/manual/kids/index.html Parents and teachers will get great results by using the two “magic responses” in his other FREE online manual, A Revolutionary Manual for Handling Children’s Aggression, http://www.bullies2buddies.com/manual/adult/index.html and in his article, Bullying--The Constitutional Solution. http://www.bullies2buddies.com/articles/constitutional_solutions_parent.html
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