Asthma Connected to TV Watching
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Posted: 10:01 AM Mar 3, 2009
Asthma Connected to TV Watching
New research may have you switching off the television. It shows the more time your kids spend in front of the TV, the more likely they are to develop asthma.
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Children who watch T-V for more than 2 hours a day have twice the risk of developing asthma.

This comes from British researchers.

They studied more than 3-thousand children from birth until age 12.

They believe breathing patterns associated with sedentary behavior could lead to developmental changes in the lungs.

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Posted by: JT Location: cos on Mar 3, 2009 at 01:58 PM

WOW!!!! hmmmmm.. very interesting... parents dont let your kids to grow upto be couch potatoes. TV, video games probably have ruined the healths of hundreds of thousands of kids in the last 20 yrs
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