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Watching TV For One Hour Daily Is Making Kids Fatter
Watching television for as little as one hour a day can make your children obese, says a new study.
The researchers found that children who watched TV for one hour or more daily were 39 percent more likely to become overweight and 86 percent more likely to become obese between kindergarten and first grade.
“Given overwhelming evidence connecting the amount of time TV viewing and unhealthy weight, paediatricians and parents should attempt to restrict childhood TV viewing,” said study author Mark DeBoer, associate professor of paediatrics at the University of Virginia.
The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) recommends limiting children and teens to less than two hours of screen time each day. The new study suggests that even that might be too much.
“Given the data presented in this study, the AAP may wish to lower its recommended TV viewing allowances,” DeBoer noted.
For this study, researchers analysed data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey of 11,113 children who were in kindergarten between the 2011 and 2012 school year.
Lifestyle factors that could affect a child’s educational performance were collected from parents, including the number of hours of television children watched on weekdays and weekends. In addition, children’s weight and height were measured.
A year later, 10,853 of the children’s height and weight were measured, and parents were again asked about their child’s TV viewing habits.
The findings were presented at the Paediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in San Diego.
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KAPOWELA WAMU P*U*S*S*Y
April 29, 2015 at 1:33 pm
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KAPOWELA WAMU P*U*S*S*Y
April 29, 2015 at 1:55 pm
apart from bloging about my hooker hildah malama,who the hell made this research?its wack!
Chief of Grief
April 29, 2015 at 2:21 pm
Ubufi ba fikala,without fudu n a sound mind tetti ube mazdoombo,mutubepe.
Tough love
April 29, 2015 at 4:39 pm
This research does not apply to people who are ordinarily starved and are already lacking essential nutrients
New Educated Zambia©
April 29, 2015 at 6:23 pm
Indeed just as tough love has said, this research is not very much applicable to zambia,a country where many of the children are malnourished and can barely afford 2 meals a day. The PF is lacking in ensuring food security even for the children. SUch researches are probably only applicable to the well to do children of pF ministers who ar enjoying taxpayers money without actually doing much for the rest of the economy. We in the UPND will ensure equitable distribution of wealth and one of our key agendas is ensuring that zambia taps into other crops and other ways of farming that suit with the unpredictable rain pattern and weather we have. This in turn will ensure a healthy diet for our children. vote UPND
major chileshe
April 29, 2015 at 6:54 pm
Yes even bloggin evryday all day sayin nonsense abt our president is makin ur fat ass even fatter
IllsaywhatIwant
April 29, 2015 at 7:05 pm
Shhhh ba Major. He doesn’t get an erection if he hasn’t talked about PF and expressed his bitterness for the loss his useless party suffered in January.
New Educated Zambia©
April 29, 2015 at 7:08 pm
kiki said just like a typical ignorant clueless dull pf cadre. how can we engage such pea brains i ask?
LUNGISAN
April 29, 2015 at 11:07 pm
yaba!