Thursday, September 15, 2005
TV makes you fat
A New Zealand study has shown that children who watch more TV- spending more time sitting around, eating and being influenced by ads for junk food- are more likely to be overweight when they grow up.Writing in the International Journal of Obesity, the researchers, led by Dr Robert Hancock, said: "Although the effect size appears small, the correlation between television viewing and BMI is stronger than reported correlations between BMI and diet or physical activity."
They add that the situation is likely to have worsened for children since this group were studied - when New Zealand had just two television channels, both of which had limited viewing hours.
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posted by I at 5:51 am
