Unplug During Screen- Free Week
DIABETES LINKED TO DIRTY AIR
H
ealth wise, the air we breathe is just as important as the foods we eat, according to a recent report pub- lished in the journal Diabetes Care. The report is based on one of the first large- scale, population-based studies linking diabetes prevalence with air pollu- tion. According to researchers from Children’s Hospital Boston, a strong, consistent correlation exists between adult diabetes and particulate air pol- lution, an association that persists after adjustment for other risk factors such as obesity and ethnicity. The relationship was seen even at exposure levels below the current U.S. Environmental Protec- tion Agency safety limit.
T
he American Academy of Pediatrics recommends zero screen time for
children under 2 and less than two hours per day for older children. Yet, the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that 40 percent of 3-month-old infants are regular viewers of television and DVDs, and school-age kids spend nearly twice as many hours with screen media such as television, video games, computers and hand- held devices as they spend attending school. To help kids, families, schools and communities turn off screens and turn on healthier activities, the Cam- paign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) urges everyone to participate in Screen-Free Week, April 30 through May 6.
CCFC is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups, parents and individu-
healthbriefs
als, with a mission to reclaim childhood from corporate marketers. “The com- mercialization of childhood is the link between many of the most serious problems facing children and society today,” advises CCFC Director Susan Linn. “Childhood obesity, eating disorders,
youth violence, sexual- ization, family stress, under- age alcohol and tobacco use, rampant materialism and the erosion of children’s creative play are all exacerbated by advertising and marketing.”
Learn more about the week-long
event, efforts to restrict marketers’ ac- cess to children and how to help, at
CommercialFreeChildhood.org.
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