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More ‘green time,’ less screen time boosts kids’ mental health
(Denise Mann/ Medical XPress) — Want to see a temperamental tween or teen act happier? The formula is simple, a large international study suggests.
“Screen time should be replaced by ‘green time’ for optimizing the well-being of our kids,” said study author Asad Khan, an associate professor in biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
That advice stems from surveys of more than 577,000 11-, 13- and 15-year-olds in 42 European and North American countries. (…)
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