Texting makes children fat

Text messaging has been blamed for being addictive, causing repetitive stress injury and leading to sex diseases. Now a study from Australia, claims text messaging is one of the reasons children are overweight. The attraction of sitting in front of a television, playing video games or texting on mobile phones instead of playing outdoors, has made them too sedentary, reports abc.net.au.

According to Professor Timothy Olds, a sports scientist from the University of South Australia, "research shows, if anything, kids are eating less, it's just they're spending too much time indoors.

In the past decade the level of obesity has doubled (in Australia).

One in every four is overweight".

emily | 6:28 PM | Health Issues and SMS Alerts |
The Permanent Link to this page is: http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2003/10/001977.htm