Re: Crohns Increasing Prevalence

I have a television in the house but I don't watch it much.  So does that
count or do I really have to remove it from the house?


"vanny" <vannyss2003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:br2nhi$ol0$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Fran,
>
> I agree with you. Since I got rid of my television over 12 years ago I
have
> not had a flare up of Crohn's and I have been IBD medication free.
>
> I can also remember there being an awful lot of American sitcoms on the
> telly. We might have found the missing link. We just need half of the
> newsgroup readers to get rid of their televisions and then we can do the
> first controlled clinical study on the effects of the television on IBD
and
> other disorders.
>
> Vanny
>
>
> "Fran" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:MPG.1a3dd0095f467bb6989c6c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Obviously they must be, because the majority of posters here are in
> America or Canada.  I blame American TV programmes myself - we had
> none of these transatlantic illnesses before we in the UK started
> im****ting US sitcoms.  There's a programme - so I'm told, I don't
> have a television - called 'The Simpsons', wherein the
> characters have yellow skin, and which is watched by, among others,
> pregnant women.  Is it just coincidence that babies are born with
> jaundice?  I think not.  I rest my case.
> --
> Fran
> If you need my email address please ask.
>
>