July 16th, 2012 by Len Saunders
From Education Week?..
The amount of time children ages 2-4 spend watching television on a daily basis appears to be negatively correlated with their levels of fitness and weight in elementary school, according to a study published online Sunday in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition.
Specifically, every extra hour of television a 29-month-old child watches per week was linked to a decrease in lower-body muscular strength in elementary school, the study found.
The American Academy of Pediatrics discourages media usage for children to 2, saying that ?media?both foreground and background?have potentially negative effects and no known positive effects for children younger than 2 years.? For children older than 2, the AAP recommends limiting their media-usage time to no more than 1-2 hours of quality programming per day.
Researchers from the Universit? de Montr?al, Canada, examined data from 2,120 children taken from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development to examine the effects of toddlers? television watching on their waistline later in childhood.
When the children were 29 and 53 months old, their parents were asked how much time the child spent watching television on a daily basis. Once each child reached elementary school, he or she took part in a standing-long-jump exercise in both 2nd and 4th grades to measure lower-body strength, which correlates with overall fitness. Each child?s waist circumference was measured by trainers in 2nd and 4th grades with measuring tape, as well.
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