Inactive Children Influenced By Their Parents

The more TV parents watch, the more their children watch and are less active as a result, say the authors of a new study in BMC Public Health. The study found that higher parental TV viewing was associated with an increased risk of high levels of TV viewing for both boys and girls. For girls, the relative risk of watching more than four hours of TV per day was 3.67 times higher if the girl's parent watched two-four hours of TV per day, when compared to girls who watched less than two hours of TV per day. read more

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