Internet absolved?: Researchers have found that the use of Internet didn't have much of an impact on teenage weight gain, saying that how much kids weighed at the start of adolescence played a more crucial role in whether they were likely to wind up overweight later.
Web surfing may not be as big a factor in teenage weight gain as how many excess pounds children are carrying around at the start of adolescence, a Swiss study suggests.
Researchers followed a group of 621 youths from age 14 to 16 and found the teens who were overweight at the start of the study were 20 times more likely to be overweight two years later than their peers who began at a healthy weight. For those who became overweight, excessive Internet use wasn’t linked to the added pounds.
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