Are we turning our children into couch potatoes?
Parents should routinely switch off the TV and take young children out for a walk or engage them in an alternative form of exercise in order to increase their chances of growing up to be fit, healthy adults, new research suggests.
Researchers at University College London reached their conclusion after comparing the TV viewing habits of more than 6,000 British people at age 10 and age 42.
The study revealed that children who watched a lot of TV at age 10 were much more likely to spend more than three hours a day in front of the screen at age 42, than those who had watched relatively little television in childhood.