By age 70, typical American children will have spent 7 to 10 years of their lives watching TV, the Academy said. In a 1995 statement, the Academy pointed out that by age 18 the average American child has viewed an estimated 200,000 acts of violence on TV alone.
Video games increase that number.
In the 1990s, selling products to American children has become a standard business practice. This is important for two reasons. And these numbers are likely to underestimate the problem because overweight people tend to underestimate their true weight and everyone tends to overestimate his or her true height. Remarkably this study showed that, from 1991 to 1998, obesity increased in every state, in both sexes, and across all age groups, all races, all educational levels, and among both smokers and non-smokers. But of course these hormone-disrupters would not be acting alone.