Earlier this year, Los Angeles County launched a new public health campaign for families with children 5 years old and younger. Its focus is to shut off televisions, mobile devices and other screens and engage children in fun indoor and outdoor activities that get them up and moving.
This campaign was created to help reverse the trend of increasing obesity rates among preschoolers in Los Angeles in light of recent national studies showing that young children are getting an average of seven hours of screen time daily.