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(EstateNewsWire.com, November 15, 2012 ) Matthews, NC -- Children who have television sets in their bedrooms have nearly a threefold risk of obesity and Type 2 diabetes, according to new research. The study, headed by Dr. Amanda Staiano of Louisiana’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center, looked at 380 children between the ages of five to 18.
Contrary to a recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics, two-thirds of the children had a TV set in their bedroom. The study, due to be published in January, linked watching a bedroom TV more than two hours daily to sharply higher odds of expanding waistlines and elevated counts of artery-clogging triglycerides. The normal risk of becoming obese or developing diabetes rose 2.7 times, researchers found. Worse, that held true even for children who exercised regularly and limited their intake of sugary drinks.
Dr. Staiano concluded parental efforts to hold kids’ TV-watching under two hours per day “could protect youth against the development of obesity and an adverse cardiometabolic profile.'' She presented her findings to Be Active 2012, a four-day international sports medicine and science conference in Sydney, Australia aimed at promoting physical activity. A special focus of this year’s conference was how to keep children from developing unhealthy sedentary lifestyles.
Other speakers at the event said schools were not only failing to educate children on the health reasons to stay active, but were also imposing unduly sedentary routines. Physiotherapy professor Leon Straker from Australia’s Curtin University told the gathering a study he led found children were actually more sedentary at school than elsewhere. He said sitting for over 30 minutes without a break is harmful to your health, even if you also exercise during the day.
Dr. Dale Esliger from the UK’s Loughborough University reported children and teens spend up to eight hours daily sitting. Youngsters between the ages of three and six sit for about 4.5 hours daily, but sedentary time steadily rises, to six hours daily by age 10, and to nearly eight hours a day for 17 and 18-year-olds.
Another Australian researcher, from Deakin University, found over half of 19-month-olds studied in Melbourne failed to meet their age group’s daily physical activity guidelines. Up to 80% of the group also failed to meet Australian guidelines calling for no exposure to electronic media.
While health guidelines call for pre-schoolers every day to get three hours of physical activity of varying intensity, less than half the one to five-year-olds studied consistently met that mark, another research presentation stated.
A British researcher identified factors related to home and family able to shape time children spend sitting. He recommended cutting parents’ time spent watching weekend TV and wider family participation in sports and outdoors play as ways to prevent children from adopting sedentary lifestyles as they get older.
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