Kids shovel down more calories watching TV
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Watching television disrupts  children's' normal response to food -- they will eat more while  they're sitting in front of the tube, whether or not they're  really hungry.
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NEW YORK  - Giving parents the skills to cope effectively with their young children's weight problems can make it easier for these kids to slim down, a study from Australia shows.
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Specialization and year-round play are putting active kids at increased risk of crippling injury
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Giving parents the skills to  cope effectively with their young children's weight problems  can make it easier for these kids to slim down, a study from  Australia shows.
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America's children are getting  fatter and need help from parents, schools, the government,  advertisers and the food industry to get back in shape, a panel  of experts said Thursday.
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American parents are troubled about how much their kids play and  interact with media including everything from downloading music onto  iPods, social networking on the Internet, playing video games to  watching TV.
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It&#39;s not just OK for students to eat on the run when they arrive at a middle school here each morning. It&#39;s encouraged. The program makes it easier for kids squeezed for time to squeeze in breakfast.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDayNews) -- A lack of safe and affordable recreation and too much time spent watching television increase the risk of obesity for young black girls in the United States, says a study in the latest issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Parents are cutting back their kids' schedules to make more time for family.
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NEW YORK  - New research shows that the  more added sugar kids get from sodas, sweets and fruit drinks,  the less they get of the things they need in their diets to  stay healthy.
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Couch-potato British children are a short "chill out" from being the world's laziest, according to an international study. UK youngsters spend 9.4 hours in front of a computer games console or TV screen per week, just behind Australian children's 10-hour average.
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Early morning in Otsego, Minn., is &quot;crunch time&quot; at the Simonsons&#39; house. Cereal starts the day for 49 percent of all Americans, and 7-year-olds Kyle and Kali Simonson and their 6-year-old sister, Kara, are no exception.
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Eight in 10 of the nation&#039;s youngest children &amp;#151; babies up to age 6 &amp;#151; watch TV, play video games or use the computer for about two hours on a typical day. A third live in homes where the TV is on most of the time.
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For some people, the first step to getting fit may be sitting on the couch and channel surfing
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NEW YORK  - South Dakota researchers have   come up with a relatively simple and inexpensive way to get   college kids to eat more fruit and veggies -- send them   newsletters.
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Watching too much television may not only help make children fat, it may also raise their blood pressure, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Americans average 2 hours and 34 minutes of TV a day, compared to 20 minutes a day exercising.