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We’d love you forever if you tell all your friends about our website. It’s pretty easy too. On every product detail page, under the image of the product, there’s a box that’s called “Product Details” (see example below). In there is a link called “Email a Friend.”

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Pretty cool, huh?

A recent study appearing the the April edition of Pediatrics, due out today, reports a new finding on the trend of childhood obesity in America: that many US children are too heavy for their carseats. Parents who are uninformed about this problem will likely continue to use the wrong carseat, as will those who have trouble admitting to a weight problem in their children. Carseat makers are releasing new carseats with a higher weight limit (one is called the “Husky”), which is an important stop-gap measure. But this study is just one more indicator for the need to turn off the television and get children actively playing and away from commercials depicting junk food and sodas.

A physician at the University of Michigan has recently published a study on the effects of television and childhood obesity. The study showed that 3-year olds who watched two or more hours of television per day were almost THREE times as likely to be overweight as their more active peers. This study stands out because it endeavored - and succeeded - in ruling out other factors such as income, diet, maternal education, and other traits commonly used to negate the television-obesity link.