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Vancouver Sun; Monday October 13, 2003

Children's Health at Risk
Four-year-old Tayme gives her mom Kym Stewart a hand preparing dinner for the family instead of watching television. Stewart and a team of researchers recently developed a media education curriculum and introduced it to four North Vancouver schools.Ward Perrin, Vancouver SunAfter years of studying how television can negatively affect children, Simon Fraser University researcher Kym Stewart decided not to have a television in her own home once she had a child.

SFU News; Oct 14, 2003

Media Risk Reduction Intervention
School bullying and childhood obesity are becoming epidemic. SFU communication professor Stephen Kline says children’s lives could be safer and healthier if the risks associated with TV watching, Internet use and video games were reduced.

 

 

 


 
 
 
 

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