Step-by-step explanation:
When you consider that children today spend an average of 53 hours a week in front of a screen, it isn’t surprising that it is having an impact on kids’ health and wellness. You might imagine the kinds of activities that some kids are missing out on (running, jumping, playing, sprinting, and swimming to name a few) while they sit in front of the TV, computer, or play video games. This almost seems too obvious.
But there are other, less obvious impacts. It turns out that it is not just what kids aren’t doing, but what they are doing that negatively impacts their health. Or rather, what they are watching. A growing body of evidence tells us that exposure to food advertising is one of the powerful forces driving the relationship between screen time and obesity. More specifically, exposure to advertising may be altering children’s food intake.