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For Toddlers, More TV Means Wider Waist

Extra hour per week adds half-millimeter: study

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 16, 2012 3:04 PM CDT

(Newser) – There's an unsurprising but stark link between kids' TV watching and the distance around their middles, a new study suggests. Researchers find that, among 2- to 4-year-olds, every additional hour of television per week translates into almost an extra .02 inches of waistline. Kids...   Read full story »

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