Does Watching TV Make You Hungry?

Sure does. I wonder why.

I read once that the angle you’re sitting when watching TV is the same angle that you have when you were a baby getting fed. But in that case you looked at your mother’s eyes.

I don’t get hungry playing video games.

i beleive it is physical boredo that makes you want to eat.

Now if only i would get bored enough to do sit-ups!!!

DARN IT!!!

Stop watching The Frugal Gourmet and Yan Can Cook if you don’t want to get hungry while watching TV then Handy.

for the Devils to score against Dallas! Onto a second overtime in a scoreless game.

Actually, I find that my hunger is more related to time since I last ate. Commercials about food don’t usually make me hungry but for some reason watching movies (especially sci-fi or scary ones) moves me to throw a bag of popcorn in the microwave. Must be a theatrical association.

Now you’re making me hungry, think I’ll get some sun chips.

I wish this stinking hockey game would go over already so Politically Incorrect could come on.

I’m always hungry. T.V. just makes it worse. Does that count?

I like to watch…

And it can affect the appetite.

Hmmm, could it be the subliminal suggestion of all those food ads, creeping into your brain crevices while you’re vulnerable?

I’m assuming you don’t watch FoodTV. I do, interspered with History Channel and Discovery, when I watch at all. Oddly, the munchie-attacks don’t vary much.

Mostly, I read–and am too absorbed to be hungry. Even the lamest, stupidest book read from print-lust doesn’t lure me to eat. Neither does futzing around on the computer.

This is interesting. Rather than posture alone, could the zoned-out passivity of tv/movies harken back to infancy? The lights, the colors, feed me, oral gratification…

Whew, glad I didn’t post that idea in a more serious venue.

Veb