Screen time linked to diabetes

Medical X-Press – Staff Writer

“Daily screen time of three or more hours is linked to several risk factors associated with the development of diabetes in children, according to a study by St George’s, University of London. Both adiposity, which describes total body fat, and insulin resistance, which occurs when cells fail to respond to insulin, were affected by longer hours of watching television and using computers. The research has been published online in Archives of Disease in Childhood.” (more)