CBS-TV reports more negative health consequences complicating teenage obesity. Fully, 43 percent of obese children who watched 2 hours or more of television daily suffered from high blood pressure - the silent killer!

These findings were pubished by medical doctors Pardee and Schwimmer who studied children and teens seeking treatment for obesity in San Diego and San Francisco, California, and Dayton, Ohio. The heaviest children were the ones with high blood pressure, and they were the same chidlren and teens who watched the most TV. 

In my private practice, I advise parents of at-risk children to forbid all eating while watching television, working at the computer,  playing handheld games and talking on the phone. Also, get all the electronics out of the kid’s room. And limit all electronics to no more than 1 to 2 hours a day. Children under the age of 2 shouldn’t be watching television at all. These practices go a long way in helping to resolve obesity disease.

While there may be many contributing factors, childhood and teenage obesity and high blood pressure can be reversed.