Although I completely agree that exercise is good and its very important for people of all ages to be involved in it...

I find it very disturbing that such a study does not have a recommendation against reading books for too long or too often, as movement wise, there is little or no difference between sitting on ones rear in front of the TV and sitting on ones rear reading a book for a few hours.

Besides all that, I always find it sad when a single study is done on 3,000 or so people and some then tries to portray it as a ground breaking discovery that is already proven...
but:
> There are over 6.7 billion people on the planet according to some sources, so 3,000 is about .00004477% of the planets population
> No scientific studies are ever worth anything, in the vast majority of cases, unless/until they are show to be repeatable by others
> TV watching in this case was used as a measure of sedentary behavior, neglecting several other major activities, like reading and playing boardgames which are also sedentary.
> The study mentions nothing about air quality in the area of residence of the children
...to point out a few issues

I was going to put a Scott Adams quote here about the three different kinds of statistics, but I couldn't find it before I got tired of looking...

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