{"id":43,"date":"2008-03-12T17:51:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T00:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2008-03-12T17:51:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T00:51:25","slug":"childhood-obesity-and-screen-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/childhood-obesity-and-screen-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Obesity and Screen Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/screen_time.jpg\" alt=\"screen time\" align=\"right\" height=\"299\" width=\"200\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/turn_off_switch_play_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Turn off your TV\" align=\"left\" \/>A couple of studies recently published confirm what we&#8217;ve suspected. Screen time and obesity are positively correlated. And the news gets worse. A study out of Canada found that children from disadvantaged neighborhoods were 3-4 times more likely to fall into these high-risk groups. Another study, this one out of SUNY Buffalo, found that kids whose screen time was reduced lost weight. According to a report in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601124&amp;sid=aMBRFXlCAj9Q&amp;refer=home\">Bloomberg<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Children whose viewing was eventually cut in half ate less, spent less time on sedentary activities and developed a healthier body mass index, a ratio of height to weight. The reduction in screen time didn&#8217;t translate into additional physical activity, providing insight into how sitting in front of a television or computer contributes to obesity in children, the researchers said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Caveat Emptor: The Bloomberg article linked above is an advertisement dressed up as news. The article spends as much space pitching a $100 electronic device called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvallowance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TV Allowance<\/a> as it does reporting consumer information. This blurring of PR\/Advertising and Journalism is almost as frightening as a 5th grade classroom full of 200 pound screen junkies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of studies recently published confirm what we&#8217;ve suspected. Screen time and obesity are positively correlated. And the news gets worse. A study out of Canada found that children from disadvantaged neighborhoods were 3-4 times more likely to fall into these high-risk groups. Another study, this one out of SUNY Buffalo, found that kids &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/childhood-obesity-and-screen-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Childhood Obesity and Screen Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,13,23,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-journalism","category-media-effects","category-research","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}