THEY'RE ALL COMING BACK
'Grey's' Isn't Going Anywhere
Watching TV is bad for kids, another study says
by Bob Sassone, posted Mar 4th 2009 1:06PM
It's official: reading books gives your children asthma.That's the only conclusion I can come to after reading this study that says that children between the ages of three and eight who watch two hours of television a day or more are at a higher risk to develop asthma. Now, they're not saying that the actual habit of watching television gives you asthma, they're saying that children who sit around and don't go outside to play and lead an active lifestyle are more at risk.
So wait a second, if it's not the act of watching TV that does this, doesn't that mean that anything that doesn't have you moving would cause asthma, including reading classic novels and encyclopedias on your bed? Or sleeping? Or playing a board game with your mom?
I don't think that anyone should watch TV all day long (unless you can find a job writing about it!), but some of these studies are just incomplete and misleading. I'd like to see a study that shows how many people who watched a lot of TV as a kid went on to have successful, healthy lives.
[via TV Tattle]
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