A University of Toronto nutritionist has found that children who ate their lunches in front of a television set consumed 228 more calories than those who ate without such a distraction.
Dr. Harvey Anderson, an expert on childhood obesity, believes that eating while watching TV interferes with the body's natural ability to know when to stop eating. According to his report, which was funded and released by the Canadian Institute for Health Research, "mindless television produces mindless eating."
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