Excessive TV Spurs Attention Trouble in Kids

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"I would say there is some ambiguity in the results, because some statistical values were omitted," she said. "I wouldn't necessarily have come to the same conclusion with just the information they reported. I would be more confident in my conclusion if I knew they had looked at these other values."

Hancox's findings are published in the same issue of Pediatrics as another study, which found that the vast majority of TV food ads directed at children and adolescents promote foods that are high in fat, sugar, and sodium, and low in nutritional content.

More information

Read the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Public Education position paper, "Children, adolescents, and television," here.