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TV and chubby children

March 5, 2007
Estimated reading time: 1 minutes

Julie Lumeng

University of Michigan researchers found that 3-year-old children exposed to two or more hours of TV a day were nearly three times more likely to be overweight than children who either watched or were in a room with a TV on for fewer than two hours a day,

http://www.umich.edu/news/podcast/science/Lumengjun06pod.mp3
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