A Good reason to Turn Off the TV

Even though this might be really obvious, read it anyway. Kids that watch lots of TV end up fat and slow.

This entry was posted on January 20, 2013 at 5:45 am and is filed under Media, Nutrition, Random Thoughts, Training, Uncategorized, Youth Training with tags Training kids, TV and Obesity. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Max Prokopy Says:
January 23, 2013 at 11:44 am

Each hour of screen time is associated with ~180 extra calories of intake per day. So you not only lose the activity, socialization, and coordination benefits of sports/games, you end up eating more. Yikes.

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