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February 8, 2010

Family meals, adequate sleep and limited TV may lower childhood obesity

From EurekAlert! - Breaking News:

A new national study suggests that preschool-aged children are likely to have a lower risk for obesity if they regularly engage in one or more of three specific household routines: eating dinner as a family, getting adequate sleep and limiting their weekday television viewing time. The study showed that 4-year-olds living in homes with all three routines had an almost 40 percent lower prevalence of obesity than did children living in homes that practiced none of these routines. Read more from this post.


Posted on February 8, 2010 8:40 PM


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