テレビ視聴が幼児期の子供に与える影響

“Poor child health linked to television”(NHS choices),

"The more TV a toddler watches, the higher the likelihood they will do badly at school and have poor health at the age of 10," BBC News reported.
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The researchers found a number of statistically-significant associations with TV watching at age 29 months. Each additional hour of television was associated with:

• 6% reduction in maths achievement
• 7% reduction in classroom engagement
• 10% increase in classroom victimisation
• 13% decrease in time spent doing weekend physical activity
• 9% decrease in activities involving physical effort
• 10% increase in time spent playing video games
• 9% reduction in general fitness score
• 9% increase in consumption score for soft drinks
• 10% increase in consumption score for snacks
• 16% decrease in consumption score for fruits and vegetables
• 5% increase in probability of being classed as overweight

幼児期¹にテレビを長く見ていた子供は，そうでない子供に比べて，10歳になった頃の数学の成績が悪くてデブになることが多い，という話…