TV Study

Watching too much television may not only help make children fat, it may also raise their blood pressure, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. They found obese children who watched four or more hours of TV a day were three times more likely to have high blood pressure than children who watched less than two hours a day. "There is a significant association between hours of television watched and both the severity of obesity and the presence of hypertension in obese children," Dr. Jeffrey Schwimmer of the University of California, San Diego and colleagues wrote in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Are you sure it's not the entire bag of Cheetos they're eating while they watch TV?