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Unhealthy health advice

25 August 2010

Unhealthy health advice

WORRIED that time spent in front of a computer screen is damaging your children’s health? You may want to think twice, then, before encouraging them to join the latest wheeze from the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s “We can!” initiative.

It aims to promote “healthy eating, increased physical activity, and reduced screen time”. And how does it aim to do that? Why, by encouraging children to visit a famous social networking site, and to vote for their favourite entry in the project’s first video contest ().

Jane Kauer particularly likes the surely ironic injunction…

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