WASHINGTON: According to a new study, mass media have causes harms against kids.
The study said, spending a lot of time watching TV, playing video games and surfing the Web makes children more prone to a range of health problems including obesity and smoking.
93% of studies found that children with greater media exposure have sex earlier.
The average child spends nearly 45 hours a week immersed in media — almost three times the amount of time they spend with their parents.
In comparison, children spend an average of 30 hours in school, the report said.
U.S. National Institutes of Health, Yale University and the California Pacific Medical Center experts analyzed 173 studies done since 1980 in one of the most comprehensive assessments to date on how exposure to media sources impacts the physical health of children and adolescents.
