TVs in bedrooms in children contribute to the development of obesity – found British scientists

Recent data indicate that childhood obesity has more than doubled among children and quadrupled among adolescents over the past three decades. A new study suggests that children who have a TV in their bedroom are more likely to gain weight than children who do not have a TV in their room, according to data published in a July 17, 2014 article in the journal Pediatrics. A team of scientists led by Dr. Diane Gilbert-Dimend of the Geisel School of Medicine in Dartmouth, New Hampshire, said that approximately 71 percent of people between the ages of 8 and 18 have a television in their bedroom.

Given the high level of exposure to television and video games, experts hypothesized that these circumstances, in theory, should have a negative impact on the weight of children and adolescents.





To see if such associations existed, the researchers conducted a telephone survey of 6,522 children aged 10 to 14.

At the start of the study, 59.1 percent of children reported having a TV in their bedroom. This technique was more common among boys and children whose parents had low incomes.

The results showed that bedroom TV was associated with an excess BMI of 0.57 2 years after the study began and an excess BMI of 0.75 after 4 years.

Source: globalscience.ru