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Watching less TV doesn't boost physical exercise

Posted: Feb 5th 2007 5:27PM by Brian White
Filed under: Fitness, Healthy Kids

Many of us have seen kids 99 ours or others -- spends hours in front of the television watching programs and more recently, playing endless video games. There are some parents that attribute kids getting fatter due to this displacement of television over physical exercise.

But, U.S. researchers said just this morning that getting children to switch off the television does not guarantee they will exercise more.

The conclusions came after a four-year study of more than 10,000 U.S. children aged 10 to 15. The researchers said that they found no correlation between changes in the amount of time they spent in sedentary activities and time engaged in moderate to vigorous physical activity.

Want the details on the results of the study?
  • More than 10,000 girls and boys answered annual questionnaires for the study, which found girls spent a mean of nearly 10 hours a week watching television per week and boys nearly 12 hours a week. Girls were physically active for 12 hours a week and boys for 14 hours.

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