Too Much TV: Television and Asthma Risk
If your child watches more than two hours of television a day, his or her risk for asthma is doubled, according to a study published in the journal Thorax.
The UK study monitored over 3,000 children from birth until nearly twelve years old. Beginning at the age of 3 and a half, researchers questioned parents annually on television viewing habits and symptoms of wheezing.
Those children who watched more than two hours of television a day were twice as likely to have been diagnosed with asthma at age 12 than those children who watched less, prompting the researchers to suggest that “breathing patterns associated with sedentary behavior could lead to developmental changes in the lungs and wheezing illnesses in children“.
