A growing number of experts agree that allowing children under the age of three to watch television can impair their linguistic and social development, and also put them at risk of health problems including attention-deficit disorder, autism, and OBESITY. Older kids are also at risk from WATCHING TV. Too much time in front of the tube may: Change your child's views and food choices Make your kids fat Make your kids more materialistic Cause your children to go into more debt as adults Cause your children to be more aggressive Lead to smoking Increase your child's risk of becoming seriously injured

Evidence from a spate of recent studies suggests that the more TV you watch, the more likely you are to develop a host of health problems and to die at an earlier age.