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The Role of Television Viewing and Education in Decreased Body Mass Indexes in Children
Morjolein Krul, MD;
Yvonne van Leeuwen, MD
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(9):899.
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Epstein et al1 have reported on a thoroughly performed study on the effects of television viewing and computer use on body mass indexes (BMIs) in young children. We believe this study provides important and useful data that will be very helpful in the battle against the growing childhood obesity epidemic. They monitored television watching and computer use as accurately as possible and concluded that reducing these activities resulted in decreased BMIs in young children, which may be related more to changes in energy intake than to changes in physical activity. They also concluded that the intervention (reduction of television watching and computer use) worked best for families of lower social economic status (SES). In the families of higher SES, there was no difference in BMI decrease between the intervention and control groups. The researchers not only reduced television watching and computer use in . . . [Full Text of this Article]AUTHOR INFORMATION
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