TV Doubles Asthma Risk in Young Kids

Filed in archive Asthma on March 3, 2009

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A UK study found that young children who spend more than two hours a day watching TV double their risk of developing asthma.

It's not the television exactly that the experts blame, but the sedentary life associated with watching too much TV.

And children who watched TV for more than two hours a day were almost twice as likely to have been diagnosed with asthma as those who watched the telly less. However, the odds were still small - about two in 100.

Of the children with asthma, 2% did not watch TV, 20% watched TV daily for less than an hour, 34% watched 1-2 hours a day and 44% watched more than two hours daily.

Deep breaths during exercise keep the lungs fit. Exercise in young children can just be playing outdoors, running around and stuff. Instead of watching too much TV.