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Tuesday, October 26, 1999
Too much TV can make kids obese
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
Televisions, videos and computers are creating a generation of fat toddlers even though they are actually eating less, say researchers in the British Medical Journal. Experts believe that after the age of two, many kids take to watching too much television, which poses a long-term threat to their health. Researchers from Glasgow and Bristol used 1,000 children born in 1991 and 1992 for the study, and measured and weighed each child every year, and determined whether they were overweight by calculating their body mass index (BMI). They found 16 per cent were overweight at the age of two, but the proportion rose to 20 per cent by the age of four. Six per cent of the two-year-olds and 8 per cent of the four-year-olds were defined as clinically obese.Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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