Pediatrics
Restricting kids' video time reduces obesity, randomized trial shows
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 31st, 2008
Entrenched sedentary behavior such as watching television and playing computer video games has been the bane for years of parents of overweight children and physicians trying to help those children lose pounds. There has been little scientifically based research on the effect of limiting those activities, however. University at Buffalo researchers now have shown in a randomized trial that by using a device that automatically restricted video-viewing time, parents reduced their children's video time by an average of 17.5 hours a week and lowered their body-mass index (BMI) significantly by the end of the 2-year study. In contrast, children in the control group, whose video time was...
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