Screentime linked to greater diabetes risk among children

Spending over three hours watching TV or playing computer games every day increases risk of type 2 diabetes in childhood, study says

Children who are allowed more than three hours of screentime a day are at greater risk of developing diabetes, new research suggests.

The study found that children who were glued to their screens for three or more hours a day scored higher on measures of body fat and had higher levels of resistance to the hormone insulin than their peers who spent an hour or less watching TV, videos or playing computer games.