Monday, July 27, 2009
Medical news of the obvious
Is it obvious that in this slow research season, we're going to pick on another study about children? If so, sorry--you can feel free to blog about the obviousness of our obvious post and get all meta about it.
Physician's First Watch alerted us to this study in the Archives of Disease in Childhood which found that running around does eventually wear children out. "Overall, the more activity children got, the faster they fell asleep." The real news here is the depressingly small size of the effect: for each hour spent in sedentary activity during the day, it took 3 minutes longer for Junior to fall asleep at night. In other words, you can chase your little monsters all day long just to bump bedtime up by half an hour. And we're no scientists, but we'd bet that after that much activity, Mom and Dad won't be able to stay awake and enjoy the extra quiet time anyway.
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