Excessive TV Viewing Starts Young

Tuesday May 1 11:15 AM ET By Will Boggs, MD   BALTIMORE (Reuters Health) –   Nearly one quarter of American children younger than age 3 already watch at least 3 hours of television on a typical weekday, according to study findings released here Monday at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies.   The American Academy of Pediatrics currently recommends that children younger than age 2 be spared television viewing altogether, and that older children be limited to no more than 1 or 2 hours per day. Since so little was known about TV viewing among very young children, Laura K. Certain and Dr. Robert Kahn from Children’s […]