Study Sees Link Between TV In Children’s Rooms, Weight Gain. NBC News (3/4, Alexander) reported on its website that television sets in children’s bedrooms were “associated with an extra pound of weight gain a year,” citing a study unveiled Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. The study found that “60 percent of children ages 10-14 had TVs in their bedrooms, and those kids gained about one extra pound per year compared to peers who did not — even once the researchers accounted for time spent watching TV.” The study doesn’t say that having a TV in the bedroom causes weight gain, the article noted. One potential explanation for the link, according to a Finnish study, is that TVs or computers in a child’s bedroom “predicted significantly shorter sleep duration and later bedtimes,” NBC noted. Sleep deprivation has been shown to be linked to weight gain, NBC added. The Cleveland Plain Dealer (3/4, Zeltner) provided details of the study, noting “the surprising findings are a result of a telephone survey administered to about 6,500 kids between the ages of 10 and 14 by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.” The paper reported that In 2003, “the children answered questions about the presence of a TV in the bedroom and their TV watching and video gaming habits,” and later they “recorded their weights and body mass index (BMI) at two points over the next four years.”
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:18:53 +0000
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