Television in Rooms Children Trigger Obesity

If you belong to one parent who gave a television in the child's room facilities? You should be wary because of the placement of a television in the child's room can lead to obesity.

A team from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Los Angeles to conduct research on the child's risk for obesity due to watching television in the bedroom, so that was launched Healthmeup.

"The relationship between television and obesity is mainly based on the Body Mass Index (BMI) is high. Relationship between television and fat mass, adiposity stored in certain depots (including abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue) and cardiometabolic risk," said one researcher Peter T. Katzmarzyk, of Pennington.

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Between 2010 and 2011, a total of 369 children and adolescents aged between five and 18 years in Baton Rouge, a participant who studied in terms of gender, ethnicity, age, and BMI status. They were then evaluated for various factors, such as waist circumference, blood pressure, get enough rest, fasting, cholesterol content, glucose, fat mass, and abdominal fat.

Researchers found that participants who have a television in their bedroom and watch television more than two hours a day had a risk of storing fat mass to 2.5 times higher than children who do not have it in the room and rarely watch television. This is certainly a warning for parents to be more vigilant in observing their children's health, especially related to obesity are susceptible to various diseases.

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