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Television Is Contributing To Obesity In All Children, Especially Girls.
2001 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Susan Hasty, staff medical writer - Children, especially girls, who watch four or more hours of television are at increased risk for obesity, researchers report.
C.J. Crespo and colleagues at John Hopkins University and at the State University of New York at Buffalo called for clinicians and public health officials to promote more active lifestyles to their young patients.
The Crespo team investigated the association between "television watching, energy intake, physical activity, and obesity status in U.S. boys and girls, aged eight to 16 years." The researchers examined a nationally representative sample of 4,669 children who participated in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1988 and 1994.
The study information included a medical exam, body measurements, and interviews that collected hours spent watching TV, what the children ate, and how much exercise they got. Crespo et al. oversampled Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic blacks to ensure accurate estimates.
They found that the more television children watched, the higher the incidence of obesity. There were fewer cases of obesity among children who watched TV for an hour or less, and the most cases occurred among those who watched four hours or more ("Television watching, energy intake, and obesity in U.S. children: Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994," Archives of Pediatric and ...
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