Research Reveals Restricting Kid’s Video Time Reduces Obesity
Aug 31, 2009
It has been the talk of the town amongst the parents of the overweight kids till now. Even the researchers have now taken steps to study the affect of deep rooted sedative behavior among the children on their weight. The activities like watching TV and playing computer games etc is one of the greatest impediments in weight loss and maintenance efforts of the kids.
The researchers at University of Buffalo studied the affect of reduction in TV viewing time on the BMI of the Kids over a 2 year period. The parents, with the help of a device, managed to reduce the time of their children in front of TV on an average by about 17.5 Hrs every week. The BMI of such kids showed significant downward changes. On the other hand the BMI changes were not significant among the kids whose TV viewing time came down by only about 5 Hrs every week.
Leonard Epstein, a Distinguished Professor with University and the first author of the said study said "Our controlled experiment provided a test of whether reducing access to television and computer time led to a reduction in BMI,". He further added "Results showed that watching television and playing computer games can lead to obesity by reducing the amount of time that children are physically active, or by increasing the amount of food they consume as they as engaged in these sedentary behaviors."
Since the researchers collated data on the kids every six months it was observed that there were significant changes in the BMI in the first and second noting. The overall results for the study period however showed only a modest change in the BMI. Professor Epstein was of the view that though the overall results of the study were not significant the magnified usage of device across US may provide huge reduction in the overall obesity and weight related medical issues.
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