Researchers have found that children who spend more time looking at tablets or television screens as infants are likely to be less physically active as they enter school age.

 

The study, published in the journal The Lancet Child and Adolescent health, revealed that kids aged two to three who spend more than three hours a day viewing screens, such as tablets and televisions (TVs) grow up to be less physically active at age 5.5 years, compared to children who used screens for an hour or less each day.

 

television was the most commonly used device and was associated with the longest viewing time. Only a small proportion of children in the study met WHO recommendations of one hour per day or less. The findings revealed that children who had used screens for three or more hours a day between the ages two to three spent an average of 40 minutes more time sitting down each day at age five than did those who had used screens for less than an hour a day at the same ages.

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