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TV Time Monitoring Leads to Lower BMI

WAKA Action 8 News,
Posted: Mar 18, 2014 4:33 PM CDT
Updated: Dec 4, 2015 8:26 PM CST

by WAKA Action 8 News

Mothers who monitor how much time their children spend watching TV and playing video games seem to have kids with lower body mass indexes.

But researchers say there was no association for fathers who monitored their children’s screen time.

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