Fitness & Wellness

Children who watch TV are at higher risk of overweight, raised cholesterol

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, August 2nd, 2004

Children who watch more than 2 hours of television a night are at a higher risk of becoming smokers or being overweight, unfit, or suffering from high cholesterol as adults, according to a new study.

Watching TV in childhood and adolescence has long been linked to adverse health indicators, including obesity, poor fitness and raised cholesterol levels, but the study published in The Lancet was the first to track a group from birth to adulthood.

David Ludwig, MD, director of the obesity program at Children's Hospital in Boston, and Steven Gortmaker, a senior lecturer on sociology at the Harvard School of Public Health, said the data "indicate...

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