Turn off your TV
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- April
- 25
A reminder: This is the week to turn off your TV.
National TV Turnoff Week runs through Sunday and you can get outdoors instead of sitting on the couch.
Childhood obesity is at record levels, Americans on average watch more than four hours of television a day and one contributes to the other, says Westchester’s commissioner for health, Joshua Lipsman. Plus watching too much TV exposes kids to ads for high-sugar, high-calorie foods.
Nor does it help the health of adults. According to the TV Turnoff Network, a Harvard University study found that men who spent 40 hours a week watching television were twice as likely to get diabetes than those who watched less than two hours each week.
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