TV habits during pregnancy affect child obesity

Expectants mums can help prevent childhood obesity early by adopting healthy screen-time habits even before the child is born.

That’s the overriding conclusion of a new study presented at the recent Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Vancouver, Canada, where researchers said that women who ate in front of the TV during meal times while they were pregnant, were five times more likely to expose their infants to TV during feeding times than their counterparts.