What Simple Step Can You Take to Lower Obesity in Your Child?

In the United States, nearly one quarter of low-income children younger than 5 years are overweight. A team of doctors recommends a simple step that parents can take to lower their preschooler's risk of obesity: removing the TV from the child's bedroom.
Their study of low-income youngsters aged 1 to 5 years found that kids with TV sets in their bedrooms watched nearly 5 hours more TV and videos a week and were more likely to be overweight than their peers without bedroom TV sets regardless of the parents' education.
The researchers believe parents should not put TVs in their child's bedroom and should limit their child's TV viewing to 1 to 2 hours a day.
Pediatrics June 2002;109:1028-1035