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TV in bedroom limits teens' healthy habits
08 Apr 2008
Removing televisions from teenagers' rooms could encourage them to lead healthier and more active lifestyles, latest health information suggests.
According to a study carried out by the University of Minnesota, teenagers who have a TV in their bedroom are less likely to exercise or eat healthily than their peers who do not have a set in their rooms.
Researchers, who looked at more than 780 teenagers, also found that adolescents with the distraction of the television were less likely to enjoy meals together with their family and read or studied less than other teens.
Girls with a TV in their bedrooms did 0.7 hours less physical activity than girls without TVs in their rooms (1.8 hours compared with 2.5 hours), ate fewer servings of vegetables (1.7 servings compared to two servings) and only had an average of three meals with their families per week, compared to the 2.9 meals eaten by female teens without a TV in their room.
Meanwhile, boys with TVs in their bedrooms were found to eat fewer portions of fruit than boys without a TV (1.7 per day compared with 2.2) and also ate around the family dinner table less often than their TV-less counterparts (2.6 times per week compared to 2.9 times per week).
"Our findings suggest the importance of not having a television in a child's bedroom," lead author Dianne Neumark-Sztainer explained.
"When families upgrade their living room television, they may want to resist the temptation to put the older television set in their children's bedroom," she added.
The findings are set to be published in Paediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Paediatrics.
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