People who watch no more than 5 hours of TV per week are only half as likely to be obese

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People who watch no more than 5 hours of television per week are only half as likely to be obese compared to those who watch 21 hours or more according to a study by Margot Shields and Mark Tremblay at Statistics Canada, Canada's national statistics agency.

"Approximately one-quarter of men (25%) and women (24%) who reported watching television 21 or more hours per week [that is at least 3 hours per day] were classified as obese," the study noted, compared to 14% of men and 11% of women who reported watching 5 hours per week or less [that is less than one hour per day].
Subjects

Subjects : 42,612 people 20-64 years-old

The study was based on an analysis of 42,612 respondents (19,811 men and 22,801 women) who were 20- to 64-years-old from the 2007 Canadian Community Health Survey.

REFERENCE

Shields M, Tremblay MS. Sedentary behaviour and obesity. Statistics Canada. 2008 Jun 18, http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-003-XIE/2008002/article/10599-en.htm

AUTHOR’S CORRESPONDENCE

Margot Shields
Health Information and Research Division
Statistics Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6
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613-951-4177

Mark S. Tremblay
Physical Health Measures Division
Statistics Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6

and the
Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute
Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8L1 Canada
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613-951-4385

 

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