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By Ronnie Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The more television children watched at age 10, the more they watched in middle age, according to a new report that suggests the need for earlier interventions to get kids off the couch. Over the course of 32 years, researchers from University College London monitored the television-viewing habits of 9,842 people born in 1970 in England, Scotland and Wales, from when they were 10 years old until they were 42. The study also found that people who watched more than three hours a day of television in middle age were more likely to be in fair or poor health and to have had a father in a lower occupational class. The study examined the habits of children who were 10 years old in 1980 â€" before smartphones, tablets, computers and videogames had begun to infiltrate kids’ lives, noted Christina Calamaro.