{"id":2340,"date":"2014-07-09T16:51:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T19:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2014-07-09T16:51:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T19:51:34","slug":"tv-watching-and-computer-use-in-u-s-youth-aged-12-15-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/07\/09\/2340\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Watching and Computer Use in U.S. Youth Aged 12\u201315, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db157.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/subtopic\/stories\/images\/2010\/youthviolence_technology.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Excessive screen-time behaviors, such as using a computer and watching TV, for more than 2 hours daily have been linked with elevated blood pressure, elevated serum cholesterol, and being overweight or obese among youth.\u00a0 Additionally, screen-time behavior established in adolescence has been shown to track into adulthood. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-supported Expert Panel and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that children limit leisure screen time to 2 hours or less daily.<\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0<a title=\"TV Watching and Computer Use in U.S. Youth Aged 12\u201315, 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db157.pdf\">report<\/a> presents national estimates of TV watching and computer use outside of the school day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings from the Report<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly all (98.5%) youth aged 12\u201315 reported watching TV daily.<\/li>\n<li>More than 9 in 10 (91.1%) youth aged 12\u201315 reported using the computer daily outside of school.<\/li>\n<li>In 2012, 27.0% of youth aged 12\u201315 had 2 hours or less of TV plus computer use daily.<\/li>\n<li>Among youth aged 12\u201315, girls (80.4%) were more likely to use the computer 2 hours or less daily when compared with boys (69.4%).<\/li>\n<li>Fewer non-Hispanic black youth aged 12\u201315 (53.4%) reported watching 2 hours or less of TV daily than non-Hispanic white (65.8%) and Hispanic (68.7%) youth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excessive screen-time behaviors, such as using a computer and watching TV, for more than 2 hours daily have been linked with elevated blood pressure, elevated serum cholesterol, and being overweight or obese among youth.\u00a0 Additionally, screen-time behavior established in adolescence has been shown to track into adulthood. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-supported Expert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63853,64025],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}