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Published: Tue, April 08, 2008 - 2:21 am
Last Updated: Tue, April 08, 2008 - 2:25 am
Last Updated: Tue, April 08, 2008 - 2:25 am
and obesity may affect even very young children.
A new Harvard study says babies and toddlers who sleep fewer
than 12 hours daily are at greater risk of being overweight in
preschool.
And it's even worse if the little ones watch TV. The kids that
slept the least and watched the most television had the greatest
chance of becoming obese.
The researchers found that among the long sleepers, 7 percent
were obese at age 3. The short sleepers fared worse, with 12
percent of them becoming obese 3-year-olds. When TV is added to the
picture, 17 percent of those who slept less than 12 hours a day and
watched two or more hours of television a day were obese by the
time they were 3.
The findings appear in April's Archives of Pediatrics &
Adolescent Medicine.
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