A newly released study by researchers of National Institute of Health, a nonprofit advocacy group, together with Common Sense Media and the Yale University showed how mass media exposure can be toxic to kids.

The report showed that there is a strong connection between media exposure and the childhood health problems.

The study shows that today’s average child is exposed to nearly 45 hours a week of television, music, the Internet, movies, magazines,  cell phones and video games.

The health and mental risk of harm to children from this amount of mass media exposure includes obesity, smoking, drug and alcohol use, wrong sexual behavior, attention deficit problems and poor grades in school.

FTA:’The study provides overwhelming evidence of the importance of limiting children’s use of media and teaching them to critically evaluate the ever-growing volume of text, images and sounds with which they are bombarded, says co-author Ezekiel Emanuel of the National Institutes of Health. He says the report also urges Hollywood and technology makers to create entertainment that is less toxic and more family-friendly.

Mass media can be toxic for kids

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