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The Role of Television Viewing and Education in Decreased Body Mass Indexes in Children—Reply
Leonard H. Epstein, PhD;
James N. Roemmich, PhD;
Jodi L. Robinson, MA, MBA;
Dana D. Winiewicz, BA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(9):899-900.
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We appreciate the kind comments of Drs Krul and van Leeuwen regarding our study. They suggest that the informational newsletter may have contributed to or interacted with differences among families of low and high SES to reduce age- and sex-standardized BMI (zBMI). The intervention included a behavioral engineering device to reduce sedentary behavior as well as newsletters that were written at the eighth-grade level. It is possible that the newsletter interacted with the behavioral engineering device to reduce television watching and computer use to differentially reduce zBMI. Families of lower SES may have benefitted more from the information in the newsletter than families of higher SES, who may have already known some of this information. Krul and van Leeuwen also note that the families of higher SES showed greater zBMI changes . . . [Full Text of this Article] AUTHOR INFORMATION
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