Sedentary behaviour continues to be associated with unhealthy diet in young people in mostly cross-sectional studies .
BACKGROUND Sedentary behaviour and its association with dietary intake in young people and adults are important topics and were systematic ally review ed in 2011 .
There is a need to up date this evidence given the changing nature of sedentary behaviour and continued interest in this field .
This review aims to assist research ers in better interpreting the diversity of findings concerning sedentary behaviour and weight status .
OBJECTIVE To provide an up date of the associations between sedentary behaviour and dietary intake across the lifespan .
Do working mothers raise couch potato kids? Maternal employment and children's lifestyle behaviours and weight in early childhood.
Alarm about the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity has focussed attention on individual lifestyle behaviours that may contribute to unhealthy weight . More distal predictors such as maternal employment may also be implicated since working mothers have less time to supervise children 's daily activities . The research reported here used two waves of data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to investigate whether  mothers ' hours in paid work  shape young children 's  television viewing , snacking and physical activity , and through those lifestyle behaviours , children 's weight at ages 4 - 5 years and 6 - 7 years . At both ages , children 's lifestyle behaviours were interrelated and associated with weight status . Cross-sectional analysis confirmed small , direct associations between longer hours of maternal employment and child weight at age 4 - 5 years , but not with child 's weight measured two years later . In both the cross-sectional and prospect i ve analyses , the children of mothers who worked part-time  watched less television and were less likely to be overweight than children of mothers who were not employed or who worked full-time . While associations were small , they remained significant after adjustment for maternal weight , household income and other factors . The combination of direct and indirect relationships between mothers ' work hours and the weight status of their young children provides additional support to calls for family-friendly work policies as an important means for promoting healthy family lifestyles and early childhood wellbeing
Sedentary behaviour continues to be associated with unhealthy diet in young people in mostly cross-sectional studies .
BACKGROUND Sedentary behaviour and its association with dietary intake in young people and adults are important topics and were systematic ally review ed in 2011 .
There is a need to up date this evidence given the changing nature of sedentary behaviour and continued interest in this field .
This review aims to assist research ers in better interpreting the diversity of findings concerning sedentary behaviour and weight status .
OBJECTIVE To provide an up date of the associations between sedentary behaviour and dietary intake across the lifespan .