Date:8/27/2012

gain and obesity may be small, it is important to examine their possible role individually and together in promoting excess weight gain. Associations between these behaviors and risk for excess weight gain may differ among adults and adolescents because of their different physical and social developmental stages."

"This study is an important piece of evidence that reducing TV hours is a powerful weight gain prevention strategy parents can use to help prevent excess weight gain among their children by changing the home environment and household television viewing norms."

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Contact: Eileen Leahy jnebmedia@elsevier.com 732-238-3628 Elsevier Health Sciences Source:Eurekalert

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