Danger Often Watching TV

Latest research in the UK indicates that the routine of watching television two hours or more a day can trigger asthma. Twice the risk compared with children who rarely watch television.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow, Andrea Sherriff, and colleagues examine 3000 children from birth until the age of almost 12 years. Parents routinely asked about symptoms of a heavy breath on their children and whether the sentence to a doctor on asthma development.

The researchers are also analyzing how often the children are watching television. "The findings indicate that the current pattern associated with breathing habits ongoing sat on interference lungs and the breath of children," said Sherriff as quoted Reuters, yesterday.

The study showed that 6 percent of children without asthma symptoms when aged in the first 12 years growing with asthma symptoms. In children who watch television more than two hours a day, symptoms of asthma are twice lipatnya.

"The findings enrich the evidence of the lack of movement and excess body weight with increased risk of asthma," said Elaine Vickers of Asthma UK, which was not involved in the study.

Study is the first call-seated habit of sitting still at the very young age with the risk of asthma not long after.

However, the study does not consider factors habits play video games and computers with the reasons for mid-1990's not popularity.

Currently, asthma diidap about 300 million people in the world and has become a disease with children, which of them are marked with heavy breath, tersengal when breathing, and cough-cough.

Based on data from the World Health Organization (WHO), as much as 30 percent of children in the world with respiratory disease