{"id":23631,"date":"2017-03-16T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T07:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/?p=23631"},"modified":"2017-10-13T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T07:57:29","slug":"too-much-screen-time-could-increase-diabetes-risk-in-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/too-much-screen-time-could-increase-diabetes-risk-in-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Screen Time Could Increase Diabetes Risk In Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23632 size-full\" title=\"Too Much Screen Time Could Increase Diabetes Risk In Kids\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/rsz_shutterstock_162157130.jpg\" alt=\"medical online\" width=\"630\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spending too much time on electronic gadgets like television, smartphones and computers could increase the risk of diabetes in children, Reveals a study.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-The study was based on the health information on nearly 4,500 children aged between 9 to 10 years of age across three major cities namely\u00a0Birmingham, Leicester and London.<\/p>\n<p>-As a part of the study, health parameters such as\u00a0cholesterol, insulin resistance, fasting blood sugar levels, markers of inflammation, blood pressure and body fat were monitored regularly.<\/p>\n<p>-The average time spent by the children on TV, computers, video games and other devices was also documented.<\/p>\n<p>-Of the total students,<strong> about 4% never watched TV or used any electronic device<\/strong>. About <strong>one third of the children spent less than an hour&#8217;s time<\/strong> on the screen. About <strong>13% spent close to 3 hours<\/strong> and <strong>18% spent more than three hours each day<\/strong> infront of the TV or any other electronic device.<\/p>\n<p>-The study also revealed that excessive screen time was found to be more common in boys compared to girls.<\/p>\n<p>-The study suggested that an overall increase in the body fat was observed among the children who spent significant number of hours (more than 3 hours) in front of the electronic gadgets. This was linked to more body fat and insulin resistance.<\/p>\n<p>-Findings were published in\u00a0<i>Archives of Disease in Childhood<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0Archives of Disease in Childhood<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/rsz_shutterstock_162157130.jpg\" alt=\"medical online\" width=\"630\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[147,169],"class_list":["post-23631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mg-news","tag-kids-health","tag-otc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Too Much Screen Time Could Increase Diabetes Risk In Kids - 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