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Nowadays watching TV and playing video games at home is the most favorite activity of majority of children and adults but a recent study has shown that too much watching television and playing video games can double the risk of attention problems in young children and adults.
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Up till now many studies have been performed on the habit of television watching and this one is the latest in this field and it has been carried by Researcher Edward Swing, a graduate student at Iowa State University. In this study the participants were compared who watched TV or play games on computer for less than 2 hours a day according to the recommendation by American Academy of Pediatrics for children aged 2 and older.
Nowadays everyone is looking for the ways to getting slim and smart but not willing to leave his/her own car and travel into the public transits, recently a group of researchers have notified this thing that if people will leave their cars and travel in the public transit then they’ll be able to effectively burn their calories in moving from one transit to another.
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According to the study’s co-author Robert Stokes, coordinator of the Urban Environmental Studies Program at Drexel University in Philadelphia “Fixed rail transit systems provide a moderate public health benefit to users by creating more opportunity for walking in one’s daily commute”.
In this study almost 500 people were surveyed in Charlotte, N.C. and the time period was before and after the completion of light rail transit system in that area.
The cancer patients and this diseases ‘cancer’ has always been the major focus of medical experts and researchers worldwide and with the progress of technology every new day gives us some more interesting facts about cancer.
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Recently according to the new guidelines for the cancer patients’ exercise has been given a chief focus. It is a true fact that physical activity carries a great impact on human life and now doctors also say that eases some cancer related fatigue.
It has been proved that the more your body will be fat, the more you’ll become weaker and scientists have long declared this thing that being overweight increases the rate of getting cancer.
The child obesity is a very major risk for the health of children nowadays and it is spreading rapidly due to the increased usage of junk food, a recent study has found out that the school based efforts for better nutrition; better exercise and improved education can effectively help those kids who are at higher risk of child obesity.
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The team of researchers which carried out this study also suggests that the child obesity develops only in those children who have got weight problem throughout their life and these school-based activities can best help those children while the other children who don’t have risks of obesity can remain smart even in those schools where such activities are not performed.
As this thing is not unknown to anyone nowadays that junk food is bringing many negative effects on the health of children,
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McDonalds one of the famous places for this Junk food has been bringing many toy gifts for children for the sake of promoting their happy meals but the consumer groups in US have announced to took actions against this policy of McDonalds.
The US Consumer group has threatened to take legal actions against McDonalds if it won’t stop giving toys for the promotion of their junk food. The group is of the belief that it is totally unfair and deceptive marketing to “lure small children” and this action is also illegal against consumer protection laws in various states of the US.
