This does not include time spent watching movies on videotape, watching music videos, playing computer or video games, or surfing the internet for recreational purposes. By age 70, typical American children will have spent 7 to 10 years of their lives watching TV, the Academy said. Children are exposed to more than 14,000 sexual references in a year's time. If children are watching 21 hours of TV per week, this works out to one sexual reference every 5 minutes for the 1100 hours that the average child spends glued to the tube each year. The Academy blamed TV for some of the violence exhibited by some children.
Video games increase that number.
An American child has viewed about 360,000 advertisements before graduating from high school, the American Academy of Pediatrics pointed out in 1995. In the 1990s, selling products to American children has become a standard business practice. Now convert your weight into kilograms by multiplying pounds times 0.45, and convert your height into meters by multiplying inches times 0.0254. Now divide the resulting number into your weight in kilograms. A BMI of 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight, and a BMI of 30 or above is considered obese, according to the American Medical Association and the World Health Organization.