Watching television while eating and eating from larger portion sizes of food are factors that have been found to independently increase food intake. When combined, these factors may further enhance consumption. This investigation, using a 4 × 2 × 2 mixed factorial design, with a between-subjects factor of order of conditions and within-subjects factors of television watching (NO TV and TV) and...

BACKGROUND Excessive television viewing in childhood has been associated with adverse effects on health and behavior. A common concern is that watching too much television may also have a negative impact on education. However, no long-term studies have measured childhood viewing and educational achievement. OBJECTIVE To explore these associations in a birth cohort followed up to adulthood. ...

Mass media is a potential agent in the empowerment of women. It influences their social, political and economic dimensions. As result, they become capable encountering constraints that come across way development process. Effective communication has to enhance women’s quality life, protect them fragile environment create knowledge-based society more responsive change issues. can lead women, ena...

The isotemporal substitution model (ISM) was previously developed as a methodology to study the time-substitution effects of 1 type of activity for another in a data setting with continuous outcomes. To demonstrate the application of ISM with a dichotomous outcome, we prospectively examined the associations of different activities with various activity displacements with depression risk among 3...

Many young children have televisions in their bedrooms, which may influence the relationship between parental estimate and objective measures of child television usage/week. Parental estimates of child television time of eighty 4-7 year old children (6.0 +/- 1.2 years) at the 75th BMI percentile or greater (90.8 +/- 6.8 BMI percentile) were compared to an objective measure of television time ob...

To study the association between television-watching in earlier years of life and subsequent parents’ concerns about decreased visual acuity their elementary school-aged child. Population-based longitudinal cohort. Television-watching its daily duration, as main exposure, for child’s during school years, outcome, were picked up from yearly questionnaires performed Longitudinal Survey Newborns T...

BACKGROUND This survey determined the practices about television (video inclusive), videogames, and computer use in children and adolescents in Italy. METHODS A self-administered anonymous questionnaire covered socio-demographics; behaviour about television, videogames, computer, and sports; parental control over television, videogames, and computer. RESULTS Overall, 54.1% and 61% always at...

Three studies examined the short-term impact of television (TV) on children's executive function (EF). Study 1 (N = 160) showed that 4- and 6-year-olds' EF is impaired after watching 2 different fast and fantastical shows, relative to that of children who watched a slow, realistic show or played. In Study 2 (N = 60), 4-year-olds' EF was as depleted after watching a fast and fantastical educatio...