Television is an indispensable entertainment program in people’s lives, many older people like to look at the TV when nothing, but the following points should be noted, so as not to cause harm to the body. 1, do not watch TV immediately after meals. After a meal, all of the body’s digestive organs need a lot of blood supply, the digestive organs can get the blood supply should be relatively reduced, thus hindering the digestion of food. At the same time half an hour after meals, should be appropriate exercise, to avoid the accumulation of abdominal fat caused by sedentary. Watching TV can be started 1 hour after meal. 2, do not watch TV for a long time. Elderly people sitting for a long time watching TV is easy to get a disease called “TV leg disease”. Elderly people with weakened heart function, venous blood circulation slows down, sedentary easy to cause lower limb numbness, pain, swelling and so on. Coupled with a long time staring at the flickering screen and moving images, can cause stinging eyes, dizziness, headache and fatigue and other symptoms. Therefore, the elderly after watching half an hour of television to stand up and walk around, with closed eyes or do orbital massage. 3, do not watch intense competition and thrilling plot. Rapid emotional fluctuations in the elderly suffering from cardiovascular disease is a factor that triggers the disease. Excessive tension, excitement will make the heart beat faster, vasoconstriction, blood pressure suddenly high, can cause hypertension with atherosclerosis patients with cerebrovascular rupture and stroke, coronary heart disease patients will be due to myocardial ischemia and angina pectoris, or even myocardial infarction. Therefore, it is best not to watch a variety of tense television programs or other thriller programs. 4, do not watch the plot is too sad program. People are sentimental creatures, joy, anger, sadness, happiness, sadness, fear, shock seven feelings, and there is “empathy” psychology: when we watch TV with the plot changes and joy, anger, sadness, happiness. Watching excessively sad, depressing TV programs will be the elderly into a state of depression, in the absence of effective guidance, evolved into depression, aggravated by a variety of geriatric diseases, induced new diseases. For example, the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, some of the elderly were infected by the tragic scenes in the news reports, associated with their own chronic diseases can not be cured can only be alleviated, and even more so that life is not interesting, all day long in tears, depressed. This situation requires the intervention of a doctor and the application of antidepressant medication. What is more important is psychological guidance, advise the patient to care about national issues should be measured, do not watch such television programs, avoid adverse stimuli.