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Addiction to Television make young adults Obese

 

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Young adults who spend more time watching television each day are more likely to obese, says a new research. The research is published online in the journal SAGE Open. The study is a 15-year analysis by the University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health.

"We were quite surprised to find that television viewing was associated with subsequent obesity for young adults, but not for the middle-aged. This suggests that middle-aged adults may differ from young adults in how they respond to the influence of TV viewing," said lead author Anthony Fabio, assistant professor of epidemiology at Pitt Public Health.

Dr. Fabio and his colleagues analyzed data from 3,269 adults recruited from Birmingham, Ala., Chicago, Minneapolis, and Oakland, Calif., who participated in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.

For 15 years starting in 1990, the participants reported their television viewing habits and had their waist circumference measured and their body mass index calculated every five years. Participants, who spent more time watching television when they were approximately 30 years old, were more likely to be obese five years later, compared to their counterparts who spent lea time in front of the television.

The researchers suspect may potential reasons for the association that young adults may be more likely to snack during television viewing and consume unhealthy food.

The study found that 23 percent of the men and 20.6 percent of the women watched four or more hours of television a day. Within the group of those who watch TV for a longer period, 35.9 percent were black and 8.6 percent were white, and 40.8 percent had a high school education, 17.4 percent had an education beyond high school.


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