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Hispanic preschoolers, children and adolescents viewed, on average about 12 foods ads per day on television in 2010, with the majority of these ads appearing on English-language TV, whereas fast-food represented a higher proportion of the food ads on Spanish-language television, according to a study published Online First by JAMA Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-hispanic-youth-exposure-food-beverage.html Pediatrics Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:01 EST news290699559 Children and adolescents who watch a lot of television are more likely to manifest antisocial and criminal behaviour when they become adults, according to a new University of Otago, New Zealand, study published online in the US journal Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-excessive-tv-childhood-linked-long-term.html Pediatrics Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:23:30 EST news280380188 The camera zooms in on a stubble-bearded hunk dragging on a cigarette and blowing out a thick cloud of smoke with what seems to be great satisfaction. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-tobacco-e-cig.html Addiction Mon, 11 Feb 2013 04:29:07 EST news279778794 A team of scientists at Umea University, in collaboration with colleagues in Melbourne, Australia, have found that television viewing and lack of exercise at age 16 is associated with the risk of developing metabolic syndrome at 43 years age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-tv-viewing-sedentary-lifestyle-teens.html Health Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:18:56 EST news278759928 (HealthDay)—People who tune in to reality beauty shows on television are much more likely to use tanning lamps and to tan outdoors than those who don't watch such shows, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fans-reality-beauty-tan.html Health Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:40:03 EST news277044803 (HealthDay)—A brief primary care intervention for preschool-aged children and their parents reduces the number of meals eaten in front of the television but does not reduce overall screen time or body mass index (BMI), according to research published online Nov. 5 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-meals-eaten-front-television-intervention.html Pediatrics Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:00:01 EST news271358579 Reducing television viewing may be an effective strategy to prevent excess weight gain among adolescents, according to a new study released in the September/October 2012 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-limiting-tv-timeeffective-strategy-weight.html Health Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:06:46 EST news265288000 (HealthDay) -- Over a five-year period, adolescents in the highest tertile of physical activity have a higher health-related quality of life (QoL) compared with their less-active counterparts, while the converse is true for screen viewing time, according to a study published online June 11 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-outdoor-physical-ups-quality-life.html Pediatrics Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:45:08 EST news258723895 Television viewing and unhealthy eating habits in U.S. adolescents appear to be linked in a national survey of students in the fifth to 10 th grades, according to a report published in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The study is part of the Nutrition and the Health of Children and Adolescents theme issue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-associations-tv-viewing-school-children.html Health Mon, 07 May 2012 16:00:20 EST news255614970 It is time to leave apart the belief that mass media are always a source of bad habits. Television, newspaper and the Internet, when used to get information, may turn out to be of help for health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-mass-media-health-well-informed-people.html Health Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:30:01 EST news245586090 Physical activity will definitely lower children's chances of developing cardiovascular disease down the road, but physical inactivity will not necessarily increase it. Findings from a recent Queen's University study shows different kinds of sedentary behaviour may have different consequences for young people's health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-tv-viewing-poses-greater-cardiovascular.html Health Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:53:24 EST news240681186 Can teenagers' relationship with their mother protect them from the negative effects that television has on their sexual attitudes? It depends on their gender, according to a new study by Laura Vandenbosch and Steven Eggermont, from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. For girls, a good relationship with mom is protective. For boys, however, a strong attachment to mom increases the likelihood that they will have stereotypical sexual attitudes, as portrayed on television. The work is published online in Springer's journal Sex Roles. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-tv-relationship-mom-affects-teenagers.html Health Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:10:00 EST news237636593