National Institute of Health (NIH) Experts Credit Over Use / Abuse of TV and Internet with Increase in Childhood Obesity
More in the news about obesity and our couch potato generation!! The National Institute of Health released a study on July 17, 2008 indicating that teenagers aren’t’ as active as they need to be which raises concern about their long term health. This is exactly why we need to teach our kids balance as children so that they create the habit of healthy living that will stay with them throughout their lives! Dr. Philip Nader with UCSD said “people don’t recognize this as the crisis that it is” and sent on to say he was “surprised by how dramatic the decline (in activity) was and cited schools dropping recess and gym class and kids increasing use of video games and computers as possible reasons.” Dr. James Griffen with the NIH agreed that screen time exacerbates this problem - “all of the types of things that take children for outside and put them on a couch or in front of the computer”. Check out the whole study on Yahoo: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080716/ap_on_he_me/med_couch_potato_kids
