This study proposes to examine whether eating behaviors and food cravings are altered while watching food-related television programs. More specifically, we examined whether educational food-related television (didactic, realistic portrayal of food) or entertainment foodrelated television (flashy, enticing portrayal of food) had any effect on the eating behaviors and food cravings of participan...

OBJECTIVE: US parents were surveyed to determine the amount of background television that their children are exposed to as well as to isolate demographic factors associated with increased exposure to background television. After this, we ask how certain home media practices are linked to children’s background television exposure. METHODS: US parents/caregivers (N = 1454) with 1 child between th...

OBJECTIVES The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children over age 2 years spend < or = 2 hours per day with screen media, because excessive viewing has been linked to a plethora of physical, academic, and behavioral problems. The primary goal of this study was to qualitatively explore how a recommendation to limit television viewing might be received and responded to by a diverse ...

BACKGROUND Prior research has found that television viewing is associated with poor diet quality, though little is known about its long-term impact on diet, particularly during adolescence. This study examined the associations between television viewing behavior with dietary intake five years later. METHODS Survey data, which included television viewing time and food frequency questionnaires,...

OBJECTIVE: US parents were surveyed to determine the amount of background television that their children are exposed to as well as to isolate demographic factors associated with increased exposure to background television. After this, we ask how certain home media practices are linked to children’s background television exposure. METHODS: US parents/caregivers (N = 1454) with 1 child between th...

It is unclear if children of different weight status differ in their nutritional habits while watching television. The objective of the present paper was to determine if children who are overweight or obese differ in their frequency of consumption of six food items while watching television compared with their normal-weight counterparts. A cross-sectional study of 550 children (57·1 % female; m...

OBJECTIVES Television viewing has been associated with greater subsequent attention problems in children. Few studies have examined the possibility of a similar association between video games and attention problems, and none of these has used a longitudinal design. METHODS A sample of 1323 middle childhood participants were assessed during a 13-month period by parent- and child-reported tele...

AIM To investigate the longitudinal association between television viewing time and risk of incident diabetes mellitus in an elderly sample of adults in England. METHODS Analyses of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. At baseline (2008), participants reported their television viewing time and physical activity level. Diabetes mellitus was recorded from self-reported physician ...

Much attention has been paid to the amount of time Americans spend watching television. Cultivation theory has been important in exploring behavioral effects of television viewing for many years. However, psychosocial health has received much less scrutiny in relation to television viewing time. This investigation examined the hypotheses that television-free individuals and viewers adhering to ...

The purpose of this paper is three fold. First, the major theoretical pattern relationships of TV and/or FM transmitting antennas are dealt with. Secend, the computer calculation method and designing of such patterns using the given relationships. And third, a method in which a computer graphic system can be used to design such antennas for a specific pattern is introduced and its results are p...