Reducir el tiempo de televisión de los niños para prevenir la obesidad: un ensayo controlado aleatorizado

T N Robinson1

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif 94304, USA. tom.robinson@stanford.edu

JAMA
|November 5, 1999
PubMed
Resumen

Reducir el tiempo de pantalla en los niños puede ayudar a prevenir la obesidad. Un programa basado en la escuela disminuyó significativamente el índice de masa corporal (IMC) y la circunferencia de la cintura en los estudiantes al limitar el uso de televisión, cinta de vídeo y videojuegos.

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