Television exposure has been related with various health outcomes which includes juvenile obesity. This paper labels associations amid the patterns of viewing television on one point & diet, weight status and preference of food taste on the other in schoolchildren and pre-schoolers. Based on the survey taken place at examination foci in Italy, Estonia, Cyprus, Sweden, Belgium Germany, Spain and Hungary. 15,145 children aged starting from 2 to 9 finished the necessary protocol, along with questionnaires on the diets, anthropometry, television habits. Sub-sample of about 1,697 school children undertook extra sensory testing for sweet taste preferences and fat. 3 dichotomous indicators labelled: children’s regular television exposure time (i.e) televisions in bedrooms and television viewing during meals. Based on the above variables we inspected television habits in contact to overweight and regular intake of sugar rich foods as well as fat.
Taste preference role was examined in sensory sub-group. All television-indicators were ominously related with hike risk of over-weight, odds ratios varying from 1.22 to 1.31, in total adjusted models. Children’s tendencies to consume foods rich in fat & sugar were absolutely and monotonically connected with high risk television behaviours. The associations between diet propensities and television were not described by preference which added sugar or either fat in trial foods.
