Linking obesity and activity level with children's television and video game use.

By E. Vandewater, Miseung Shim, A. G. Caplovitz. Journal des adolescens, 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Sustainable interaction design: invention & disposal, renewal & reuse (2007, background): “Sustainability need not be restricted only to the centrality of environmentalist concerns—for example, an hypothesis about the effects of interactive computer games on the prevalence of obesity (see [ 44 ], for example) is within the scope of SID and the prevalence of obesity is an example of an uns”
Violent Video Games as Exemplary Teachers: A Conceptual Analysis (2008, background): “…data on television watching, are correlated with many other risk factors for health such as obesity (Berkey et al. 2000; Subrahmanyam et al. 2000; Vandewater et al. 2004) as well for poorer academic performance (e.g., Anderson and Dill 2000; Anderson et al. 2007; Gentile et al. 2004; Harris and…”
Virtual(ly) Athletes: Where eSports Fit Within the Definition of “Sport” (2017, background): “…mainstream society sees video gaming as the antithesis of sport; empirical research has repeatedly found that sedentary screen time (e.g., seated video gaming) correlates to increased obesity and/or decreased exercise (Ballard, Gray, Reilly, & Noggle, 2009; Vandewater, Shim, & Caplovitz, 2004).”
Physical activity and obesity in children (2011, background): “and, in many settings, a large proportion of children and adolescents do not meet recommended physical activity guidelines. Evidence also suggests that obese youngsters are less physically active than the non-obese”
Systematic review of sedentary behaviour and health indicators in school-aged children and youth (2011, background): “Of the 119 cross sectional studies, 94 reported that increased sedentary time was associated with one or more of increased fat mass, increased BMI, increased weight status and increased risk for being overweight [28,90-182].”
Comparison of energy expenditure in adolescents when playing new generation and sedentary computer games: cross sectional study (2007, background): “however, as a result of a variety of factors. Time spent in front of television and computer screens has been causally linked to physical inactivity and obesity, although the associations are often weak.”