Does TV Make You Fat?

Last month we reported on a study at Johns Hopkins showing a strong
correlation between the amount of sleep a child gets and obesity.

Harvard’s
Project Viva, a study of 2,000 mothers and their children, has reported a
similar correlation between the amount of sleep a child gets (or lack thereof),
and obesity.

If the same children also watched a lot of TV they were even more likely to
be fat.

Now, the title of this blog post is deliberately misleading.  See,
science deals primarily with correlations and not causalities.

What does that mean?

Well, it means that we can’t know for sure if the TV itself is causing the
obesity.  It’s one of many possibilites that the correlation suggests.

Another possibility is that the obese kids chose a sedentary activity like TV
as their favorite leisure activity.

I’d love to see if the same correlation exists for kids who surf the net an
equal length of time.

Anyone know someone at Project Viva?  I’d love to know if they are
gathering that data as well …

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