What’s TV got to do with pregnancy pounds? It’s obvious that when anyone, whether they are pregnant, new moms or anybody else are engaged in watching their favorite soaps and consuming foods rich in calories cannot lose weight.
A study was conducted on over nine hundred women to find how their activities post pregnancy affected their weight. The new moms were asked about the time they spent in front of the television, their physical activities and their diet. It was found that women who spent more time in front of the tube lost very little weight and for every extra hour of TV a woman watched each day, her risk of retaining 5 kg or more increased by 24 percent.
They also found that women who watched less than 2 hours of TV daily, walked for at least 30 minutes a day, and consumed less Trans fat than the group average had a 77-percent lower risk of holding on to 5 kg or more of post-pregnancy weight.
When people are not sitting in front of the tube they are most likely to be engaged in some or the other physical activity and of course walking and consuming less amounts of trans foods would help anyone trim down, not just new moms. What beats me is the purpose of the study; I fail to understand why the researchers had to go through this study wasting time and money and coming to conclusions which are obvious!
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