A report being mentioned worldwide this week suggests children who watch two or more hours of television a day will more likely become an overweight adult, with high cholesterol and a smoking problem.

The report, published in The Lancet, is the first to track children all the way through adulthood.

Dr. David Ludwig, director of the obesity program at Children’s Hospital in Boston, and Steven Gortmaker, a sociology lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health, say the report strengthens the argument to ban food advertisements aimed at children.

1000 people born in 1972 and 1973 were studied at regular intervals by the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit.

Once again, this is something that seems obvious but people want to prove it through studies. Fair enough.






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