Sentence examples for reduced television from inspiring English sources

But if adults and children reduced television viewing by one hour a day, there would be ample time for physical activity.

I was raised in Romania in the 1980s, under a Communist regime that, among countless repressions, reduced television to two hours a day of dull propaganda, traditional music, patriotic poems and censored films.

Last year the one-hour time shift "reduced television usage and translated to lower ratings throughout prime last season, especially in the 8 p.m. hour," a network spokesman said last week in a message to reporters.

The analyses indicate that population life expectancy in the USA would be 2.00 years higher if adults reduced their time spent sitting to <3 h/day and 1.38 years higher if they reduced television viewing to <2 h/day.

Given the connection between barriers to active playtime and limiting screen-time, interventions should target both ways to reduce screen-time and increase active playtime while emphasizing the guidelines for reduced television viewing.

Similarly, research that investigated the effects of reduced television viewing on children found that children who watched <1 h of television/d had reduced body weights, BMIs, skin-fold thicknesses, and fat mass and were less likely to be categorically overweight (59).

At the end of the study, the children had reduced television-watching by a third, the study said, and their "aggression rating" was put at about 25percentt lower than those at the other school.

Our results encourage the design of interventions that reduce television watching as a possible means of increasing adolescent physical activity.

Improving the home environment, reducing television viewing, encouraging reading and rewarding good students are also needed.

Physical changes in the home environment to reduce television viewing and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among 5- to 12-year-old children: a randomized pilot study.

Also needed — and less controversial — are school-based programs to encourage healthier eating and exercise habits and to reduce television watching, the authors said.