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Television and Childhood Obesity
One of the fasted growing diseases in America is childhood obesity. ... In homes today where both parents work or in a single parent home, many parents find themselves using the television as a short-term and long-term baby sitter. With parental discretion television isn’t wrong, but have you ever watched the commercials that run during their programs? ... As a parent it is more evident to me that we must educate our children regarding good nutrition and exercise to help avoid the problem with childhood obesity. Television is a major contributing factor to the childhood obesity epidemic that is plaguing our country.
Children in the United States spend more time watching television than they spend on any other single daily activity except sleeping. ... Now days kids come home from school wanting to know what is for “snack” and plop in front of the television, I am sad to say that this does take place in my home.
Approximate Word count = 799
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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