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TV, ADHD and Doing Useful Things

Posted by Hemos on from the well-duh dept.

WebGangsta writes "USAToday (and others) are reporting that too much TV, at an early age, can cause ADHD in children. They say that there should be no TV watching for children under 2. Every added hour of watching TV increased a child's odds of having attention problems by about 10%. Kids watching about three hours a day were 30% more likely to have attention trouble than those viewing no TV. The researchers accounted for many factors beside television that might predict problems concentrating, but the TV-attention link remained. I imagine that in 10 years we'll be seeing studies about how too much Internet/computer/video game use will also result in ADHD. See PEDIATRICS magazine for more information."

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  1. Huh? by orthogonal · · Score: 1, Funny

    Uh, what?

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  2. I tried to read it by scumdamn · · Score: 3, Funny

    But it got boring so I looked at my fingers for a while and forgot what I'd been doing in the first place. Then I saw some lint on the desk and cleaned it up for a few seconds...

    What were we talking about again?

  3. No way by wan-fu · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is completely false. When I was a tiny baby, my dad watched sports and he would seat me next to him to watch sports on TV.

    What was I talking about again? I love sports. Wait, was I talking about sports or TV?

    I think SportsCenter is on. Bye.

  4. Cut-n-paste from adequacy.org by gaj · · Score: 4, Funny
    Nice f'ing cut-n-paste, you lazy twit.

    I don't necessarily disagree that these "diseases" are over-hyped, but I don't think there's much question that they exist. Just because a condition has a treatment or behavior that can mitigate it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

    Does berry-berry not exist because people could get more Thayamine and drink less alocohol?

    Does scurvy not exist because people could get more Vitamine C?

    I suppose malaria doesn't exist, only people stupid enough to live where there are mosquitoes?

    Twit.

  5. Re:If thats ADHD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    News flash: you don't have ADHD; you're just retarded.