TV has become a
great scapegoat for these stressful times. But is a teenager who watches hours
of daily television more likely to become depressed? Yes. In study conducted at
the University of Pittsburg, researchers interviewed 4,142 adolescents – none of
whom showed signs of depression at the start – and found that, when they checked
in with them 7 years later, 7 percent of the adolescents had developed signs of
depression. Finding correlation: The depressed young people watched more
television than those who weren’t depressed; an average of 2.64 hours of TV a day
versus 2.28 hours per day for the adolescents who weren’t depressed.
---http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/life/Monday_health/article_fc481983-bfaa-515a-b956-f9beb4d15bcb.html
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