A new study has reflected that three household routines can dramatically reduce the risk of obesity in kids.

Previously health experts have long urged parents to introduce healthy alterations to their family's lifestyle such as eating nutritiously, reducing TV time, exercising and getting a good night's sleep, but this is the first study of its kind which discerns all three routines and depict that when all three are combined, they can pose a larger impact on a child's health.

The study is reported to involve more than 8,000 U. S. preschoolers reveal that sitting down to dinner on a regular basis, having a restricted TV time and taking plenty of sleep can dramatically reduce a child's risk towards obesity.

The study appears online and is scheduled for publication in the March issue of the journal Pediatrics.

"The more of these routines the children had, the lower was their risk of obesity", epidemiologist Sarah Anderson says. "If children had all three routines, their risk of obesity was 40% lower than children who had none of the routines".

The data Anderson referred to emerged from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort, a government-sponsored study of a cross section of children born in the U. S. in 2005.