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THE HEALTH BENEFITS
 The television programming used by The Hospital Channel is provided by the Landscape Channel television production department. Landscape has been making low stress programming for nearly twenty years, since it started the Landscape Channel cable and satellite television service in 1988. It has been shown in experiments that something like 70% of the computing power of the brain is used to deal with visual sense. Add to this the audio experience and it is possible to understand why watching the programming made by Landscape for The Hospital Channel aids relaxation. This programming is designed to engage the visual sense, but to allow it to be freed from logical thought processes. In the same way that classical music on its own allows the mind to wander The Hospital Channel provides an environment where the process of watching and listening engages the relaxation process, without the need for special meditative exercises.
 The Hospital Channel is low stress television because it is non-intrusive and has the effect of relaxing both the body and mind. Stress, unlike many other ailments, can be linked to mental activity and the control mechanisms which control the body. The effect of watching The Hospital Channel programming has been studied in independent researches. It has been used in a hospital accident and emergency department to reduce stress for incoming patients, and has been observed to visibly reduce heart rates on observation monitors. Research conducted by senior research scientist Dr Roselia Lelchuck Staricoff, at Westminster Hospital, supports our colloquial evidence of direct health benefits from the use of arts in a healing environment. It is our view that patients also benefit from reduced heart rate, resulting in reduced blood pressure, and mental wellbeing as a result of watching our programming on a regular basis. We recommend any patient who has undergone surgery, trauma, or life changing experiences, should consider Landscape programming as an active aid to the recovery process. If you want to watch The Hospital Channel programming in the comfort of your own home it is available as a series of DVDs from the Landscape Channel store at The Landscape Channel is an associated channel of The Dentist Channel and is wholly owned by the Landscape Group holding company Antilles Landscape Investments NV. |