Nutrition and body weights of Canadian children watching television and eating while watching television

• Published in: Public health nutrition Vol. 12; no. 12; pp. 2457 - 2463
• Main Authors: Liang, Tina, Kuhle, Stefan, Veugelers, Paul J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.12.2009
• Subjects: Body Weight; Body Weight - physiology; Canada; Child; child nutrition; Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Children; Diet; Diet - standards; Diet - statistics & numerical data; Eating; Eating - physiology; Energy Intake; Energy Intake - physiology; epidemiology; etiology; Feeding Behavior; Female; food frequency questionnaires; Fruits; Health Behavior; Health promotion; height; Humans; Life Style; Logistic Models; Male; Meals; Multivariate Analysis; Nova Scotia; Nova Scotia - epidemiology; Nutrition; Nutrition Surveys; Obesity; Overweight; Overweight - epidemiology; Overweight - etiology; physiology; Risk Factors; Schools; Snack foods; statistics & numerical data; Students; Teenagers; Television; Television viewing; Time Factors; weight; Canada; Nova Scotia; United States > US; Nova Scotia Canada; Canada, Nova Scotia; Obesity; Children; Nutrition; Television viewing

To examine whether eating while watching television poses a risk for poor nutrition and excess body weight over and above that of time spent watching television. We analysed data of grade 5 students participating in a comprehensive population-based survey in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Thi...