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raloalto, california—“switching off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter—even if they do not change their diet or increase the amount they exercise,” us researchers said last week. a study of 192 third and forth grades, generally aged eight and nine, found that children who cut the number of hours spent watching television gained nearly two pounds (0.91kg) less over a one-year period than those who did not change their television diet. “the findings are important because they show that weight loss can only be the result of a reduction in television view and not any other activity,” said thomas robison, a pediatrician() at stanford university. in the study, presented this week to the pediatric academic societies’ annual meeting () in san francisco, the researchers persuaded about 100 of the students to
