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Video Games Major Factor in Child Obesity

  • July 01, 2004

Childhood obesity is a national epidemic of such tragic proportions and of such importance that one of my next books will be on this topic. Researchers at the top pediatric hospital in the US have concluded that video games are a major contributing factor for this epidemic. Obesity was independently associated with the time spent playing electronic games and the time spent watching television and was inversely associated with physical activity. The researchers also found that obesity was...