TV-time affects food habits

Teens who watch TV more than five hours a day are prone to become fast-food junkies as adults. To explore the connection between food habits and time spent by children while watching TV, researchers from America collected data on 564 middle school students and 1,366 high school students. The researchers examined survey data on the number of hours the students watched TV each day and what they ate five years later as young adults. Five years out, high-school students who had watched more than five hours of TV a day and were now young adults ate less fruit, vegetables, whole grains and calcium-rich foods. Instead, they ate more snack foods, fried foods, fast food, sugar-sweetened beverages and foods containing trans-fats. It was found that heavy TV-viewing adolescents consume about 200 more calories per day than those who watch a moderate amount of TV. The above findings suggest that television watching impacts diet choices adolescents make years later. This could be attributed to the fact that too much time spent watching ads for fast food restaurants, snacks and other unhealthy food choices. The researchers recommended that to develop healthy eating habits among children parents need to play a more active role and limit TV watching.

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