obesity facts| childhood obesity| fatness and Excess of media and social media

  • 4 years ago
Obesity among children and adolescents has dramatically increased over the past two to three decades and is now a major public health issue. During this same period, youth exposure to media devices also became increasingly prevalent. Here, we present the novel hypothesis that media multitasking (MMT)—the simultaneous use of and switching between unrelated forms of digital media—is associated with an imbalance between regulatory processes and reward-related responses to appetitive food stimuli, resulting in a greater sensitivity to external food cues among high media multitaskers.Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health.