Less TV, More Family Dinners Fight Childhood Obesity
File this in the "DUH" category.
Lifestyle Changes: Which Is Best? The researchers defined the three healthy routines as eating the evening meal as a family more than five times per week, getting at least 10.5 hours of sleep nightly, and watching less than two hours of TV on weekdays. The researchers say adopting just one of the practices could lower a child’s risk of becoming obese. Each routine was linked with 23%-25% lower odds of obesity. “I imagine people are going to want to know which of the routines is most important,” Anderson says. “Is it limited TV, is it dinner, is it adequate sleep?”via Less TV, More Family Dinners Fight Childhood Obesity.
