TV and damaging on children
U.S. researchers said that the teenager, who keeps a TV in his bedroom, the food habits and the other relating to the exercise of exercise bad compared to his counterpart who does not keep a TV in his bedroom as the educational level is lower.
Although many studies have examined TV viewing habits in adolescents, researchers at the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, it was not a lot known about the consequences of having a TV in the bedroom, especially for older teenagers.
The researchers ask 871 teenagers aged between 15 and 18 years in the Minneapolis area in 2003 and 2004. Said 62 % of them said they had a TV in their bedrooms.
The researchers said it was no surprise that adolescents who have a TV in their bedrooms were more inclined to watch it a lot, watching four to five hours more per week in front of the TV. many of the class of adolescents who have a TV in their bedrooms they gluttons for TV viewers twice more than their counterparts who do not have a TV in their bedrooms.
For girls who kept the TV in their bedroom, they found that exercising for exercise and physical less than others, and found the boys who kept the TV in their bedroom not getting high marks in exams and the number of meals less and the lowest amounts of fruit for the rest of the family ..
Anderson, one of the posts in the research, said, “ Do not allow your child to have a TV in the bedroom, parents must when buying a new TV in the living room and still be with the old one, to resist the pressure because the child have a TV in his bedroom,,”
The researchers noted that the American Academy of Pediatrics urges parents to transfer television sets from their children's bedrooms. The findings were published in the journal Pediatrics, which issued by the Academy.
