I'm pissed..I never had a TV in my room..

The University of Minnesota School of Public Health, recently have conducted a study on adolescents to figure out the affects of having a television in the child's bedroom. The results were pretty much what you would expect them to be, as Will Dunham reported to Reuters on Monday. Basically kids who have TVs in their bedrooms will turn into Jabba the Hut...well not exactly, but it was said that these kids tend to have poorer diets and exercise habits, even lower grades in school, compared to kids without TVs in their caves bedrooms. 

So you may be thinking, well this seems pretty outrageous of a claim. I wonder what the study consisted of? And this is the answer: The study questioned 781 adolescents, ages 15-18, in the Minneapolis area in 2003 and 2004, and of them a whopping, 62 percent reported having a TV in their bedroom..However, what makes me weary is, so what this is just Minneapolis, who are these researchers to claim that this is a constant trend among America. Maybe Minneapolis is just lazy and likes TV?

Here's some quotes from  Daheia Barr-Anderson, one of the researchers on the project: "It really clearly points out that there's some merit to not allowing your child to have a TV in the bedroom" and this one, which is my favorite: "When you upgrade your TV in the living room and you have this smaller TV that's out of date but still usable, parents should really resist putting it in one of your children's bedrooms -- and resist the pressure from the child to have a TV in their bedroom," 

Sure Daheia, that makes sense, but at the same time, what if parents simply just didn't connect these TVs to cable so their kids are left stranded with basic cable. That way, maybe the youth could watch the news and catch up on current events. That may be asking too much, but really, I think it's easier said than done to keep TVs out of adolescent's bedrooms in this day in age. 

Here is my favorite statistic from the research:

"Boys with a bedroom TV reported having a lower grade point average than boys without one, as well as eating less fruit and having fewer family meals, the researchers said."

C'mon can you really correlate the two things and blame TV: AMOUNT OF FRUIT eaten...and TV? Really..that has so much more to it, I find it unfair to blame TV for that. What about Kids who don't like fruit, etc. etc.  

Either way, I suppose it is interesting that a majority of kids do have Television's in their bedrooms; and if companies needed any more incentive to use TV to get their message out, here it is!!!