Tasmanian researchers have found extended television viewing stunts growth in teenage boys.
Really?
I have never been so glad that I watched a lot of television as an adolescent in my life. I mean, the concept of being even taller than I am now is kind of appalling, really. I'd have had to shoot the football coach in high school to get him to leave me alone.
(Mind, I have a suspicion that there's some sucky research design and confounding factors going on here. For example, I'd expect that if the kids were watching all that much television, you might find a correlation with the types of things they were eating, or not eating. And I'm pretty sure that activity levels and growth are somewhat correlated, so maybe this isn't even all that surprising. But I still suspect there's something wrong with the research design.)
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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