Where did the kissing habit come from? Detailed answer

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Where did the kissing habit come from?

We believe that a kiss is a form of admiration. But long before that, in many parts of the world, a kiss was an expression of respect.

In many African tribes, the natives kiss the ground where their leader has walked. In ancient times, kissing the hand and foot was an expression of respect and reverence. The ancient Romans, kissing on the eyes and on the lips, thus expressed respect at the meeting. One Roman emperor allowed the most noble people to kiss his lips, the less noble allowed him to kiss his hand, the people of the lowest rank were content to kiss his foot!

It is possible that kissing as a form of admiration has its origins in the distant past, when mothers caressed their children in the same way that they do today. And society had no choice but to accept this in the form of an expression of good relations between adults.

We have information that such a tradition already existed in the XNUMXth century, but we can only assume that it is even older. The first country where kissing was accepted as a form of love and courtship was France. When dancing became popular, every dance number ended with a kiss.

From France, this tradition quickly spread throughout Europe. Russia, which adopted many of the traditions of France, also adopted this tradition, and the exchange of kisses spread among noble people. The royal kiss has become one of the types of rewards from the sovereign.

Over time, the exchange of kisses became part of the courtship. With the development of wedding ceremonies, the kiss became part of the wedding celebration. Today, undoubtedly, the exchange of kisses is an expression of love and courtship. However, in many parts of the world it remains part of official ceremonies, a form of respect and admiration.

Author: Likum A.

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How harmful is television to our health?

Just do not harm the eyes - supposedly due to the fact that we are sitting too close to the screen.

Until the late 1960s, cathode ray tubes, albeit in extremely small doses, still emitted ultraviolet rays, and viewers were strongly advised not to sit closer than two meters from the kinescope.

Children were most at risk. Children's eyes are so well adapted to changes in distances that kids, unlike most adults, can sit quietly and watch programs, almost with their noses on the screen.

Nearly forty years ago, the Radiation Health and Safety Control Act required all kinescope manufacturers to use lead glass, making television sets completely safe.

The real harm to health from television lies in the sedentary lifestyle it encourages. Thus, over the past twenty years, the rate of obesity among children in the United Kingdom has tripled - and this is directly related to television. The average English child between the ages of three and nine spends fourteen hours a week in front of a TV screen - with just over an hour playing sports or playing outdoors.

Research published in 2004 in the journal Pediatrics suggests that children who spend two to three hours a day watching television have a 30% higher risk of developing attention deficit disorder (ADD).

In 2005, Nielsen, a media research firm, concluded that the average American home has a TV set on eight hours a day. This figure is 12,5% higher than ten years ago, and the highest since the company first began counting the number of viewers of certain television programs in the 1950s.

The American Academy of Pediatrics estimates that by the time Americans today turn seventy, they will have spent eight years of their lives in front of television screens.

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