Friday, September 07, 2007

Too Much TV Ups Kids' Risk of Attention Problems

image of tv"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young children who watch more than a couple of hours of television a day are more likely to have attention problems as adolescents, researchers from New Zealand have found.

'The two-hour point is very, very clear with our data, very consistent with what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends,' Carl Erik Landhuis of the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago, the study's first author, told Reuters Health."

To view this entire article, please click the title above.

No comments: