Ten Things Your Reader Won’t Know About Children Watching Too Much TV.

1. The concern over increasing rates of obesity and associated health issues has led to calls for solutions to the potentially unhealthy influence of television and food advertising on children's diets.
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2. More than one in five children in the U.S. have insufficient access to nutritional and affordable food today, the result of a challenging economy that continues to affect low-income Americans.
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3. According to the USDA, more than 49 million people, including nearly 17 million children, live in households that experienced hunger multiple times throughout the year.
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4. two-thirds of infants and toddlers watch a screen an average of 2 hours a day
How TV effects your child.
http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/tv_affects_child.html
5. Kids who view violent acts are more likely to show aggressive behavior but also fear that the world is scary and that something bad will happen to them.
How TV effects your child.
http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/tv_affects_child.html
6. Children ages 8-12 years who view violence are often frightened that they may be a victim of violence or a natural disaster.
Television and Children
http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/tv.htm
7. The number of sex scenes on TV has nearly doubled since 1998, with 70% of the top 20 most-watched shows by teens including sexual content
Television and Children
http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/tv.htm
8. The average American child watches 19 hours and 40 minutes of TV per week--more than a thousand hours each year. (10) That means an annual exposure to thousands of commercials for junk food and fast food. Then there’s all the lost playtime--during those 20 hours each week, children are not physically active.
The Fast Food Trap: How Commercialism Creates Overweight Children
http://www.commercialalert.org/issues/health/childhood-obesity/the-fast-food-trap-how-commercialism-creates-overweight-children
9. Between 1977 and 1996, soda consumption among 12 to 19 year olds increased 75 percent for boys, 40 percent for girls. (20) According to a study in The Lancet, for each can of soda drunk each day, a child is 1.6 times more likely to become obese, all other things held constant.
The Fast Food Trap: How Commercialism Creates Overweight Children
http://www.commercialalert.org/issues/health/childhood-obesity/the-fast-food-trap-how-commercialism-creates-overweight-children
10. According to their parents, children six and under spend an average
of about two hours a day with screen media (1:58), about the same
amount of time that they spend playing outside (2:01), and three
times as much time as they spend reading or being read to(39 minutes).
Zero to Six
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