Television viewing

Robinson TN Television viewing and childhood obesity. Pediatr Clin North Am 48 1017-1025, 2001. 

Johnson, J. G. et al. March 29,2002. Television viewing and aggressive behavior during adolescence and adulthood. Science. 295, 2468-71. 

The prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents has increased in Western coimtries, due to changes in diet and physical activity. In a cross-sectional study in the USA, television viewing affected overweight among youth, and the attributable risk indicated that more than 60% of overweight incidence could be linked to excess television viewing time [119(111)]. 

Gortmaker SL, Must A, Sobol AM, Peterson K, Colditz GA, Dietz WH. Television viewing as a cause of increasing obesity among children in the United States, 1986-1990. Arch. Pediatr Adolesc. Med. 1996 150 356-362. 

Nielsen Ratings Audience-measurement system developed in an effort to determine the audience size and television viewing habits in the United... 

An analogous concept is the so-called V-chip, a feature that can block the display of television programs of a particular rating. The V-chip is intended only to exert parental control over television viewing and can easily be reprogrammed in the case of dual-use DNA synthesizers, such security measures would have to be more effective and robust. 

Given the potential for observational learning from television viewing, our comprehensive and systematic observations of violence and unsafe sex on television during the 1994-1995 and 1997-1998 seasons were disappointing and alarming. In the fall of 1994, my students coded 297 violent scenes from 152 prime-time episodes over a nine-week period. The FOX Television Network showed the most violence, with an average of almost three violent scenes per episode. The most commonly used weapon was the hand or fist (36.2... 

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