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Archive Home > 2006 > May > 04 > TV urges kids to eat unhealthy foods

TV urges kids to eat unhealthy foods

Sedentary lifestyle could be lesser factor

By Markian Hawryluk / The Bulletin
May 4, 2006

For years, clinicians have suspected that the inactive lifestyle of high-volume TV watching is behind the childhood obesity epidemic. But increasingly research is suggesting it might be the food advertised on television that is the real culprit.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public....

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