Study: More TV means fewer veggies for teens
Monday, December 8, 2003 Posted: 9:35 AM EST (1435 GMT)

CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) -- The more television children watch the less
fruit and vegetables they eat, probably because the advertising they see
leaves them craving junk food instead, a study said Monday.

Children surveyed for the study who spent more time watching television ate
0.16 fewer servings of fruit and vegetables for every extra hour watched.
That additional hour a day of TV watching added up to one less nutritional
serving every six days.

Heavy television viewing by children has been linked to eating more junk
food, getting less exercise and obesity, but this was the first study to
show that TV watching led to lower consumption of nutritious fruit and
vegetables, said the report, which was published in the journal Pediatrics.

At the start of the survey in 1995, the children, who averaged 12 years of
age, ate an average of 4.23 servings of fruit and vegetables per day, which
was below the government-recommended five daily servings.

The rising epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States and other
industrialized nations has been linked to cardiovascular disease in even
young children, and to an accumulation of health problems later in life.

American children spend more time watching television than engaging in any
other activity except sleeping, averaging 22 hours of viewing a week, the
report said. They are exposed to 20,000 TV commercials a year, or 150 to 200
hours worth.

Study author Renee Boynton-Jarrett of the Harvard School of Public Health
said most food advertising aired during children's shows conflict with
healthy eating habits.

"Little of this marketing is aimed at fruit and vegetables," the report
said.

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[ So... do we need to spell it out for you? Watching TV means seeing more
marketing and advertising encourages you to do what is PROFITABLE for the
company, not yourself. The Christian religion has made parasitism an
acceptable mode of thought, and in the hands of industry, this is
devastating. ]


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