7 ways to fit healthy choices into your hectic life
5. Control screen time.
In addition to family meals, other habits that researchers call “protective routines”— at least seven hours of sleep nightly, two hours or less of daily screen time, and no TV in the bedroom—correlate to decreased obesity risk in both youngsters and parents.
If your kids (or you) lack impulse control with video games or TV shows, try VoltBolt or StoPower, inexpensive gizmos that, with the turn of a key, cut power to whatever device they’re plugged into. Or try Bob Screen Time Manager, a gadget that gives each family member a PIN number and enables time limits and blocking (for example, right after school or during the night) for any device.
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