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 we fatten our children at the television set? Obesity and television viewing in children and adolescents.
The association of television viewing and obesity in data collected during cycles II and III of the National Health Examination Survey was examined . Cycle II examined 6,965 children aged 6 to 11 years and cycle III examined 6,671 children aged 12 to 17 years . Included in the cycle III sample were 2,153 subjects previously studied during cycle II . These surveys , therefore , provided two cross-sectional sample s and one prospect i ve sample . In all three sample s , significant associations of the time spent watching television and the prevalence of obesity were observed . In 12- to 17-year-old adolescents , the prevalence of obesity increased by 2 % for each additional hour of television viewed . The associations persisted when controlled for prior obesity , region , season , population density , race , socioeconomic class , and a variety of other family variables . The consistency , temporal sequence , strength , and specificity of the associations suggest that television viewing may cause obesity in at least some children and adolescents . The potential effects of obesity on activity and the consumption of calorically dense foods are consistent with this hypothesis
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 .