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Lots of things are making people fat ? what we eat, how we eat and a lack of exercise. Now a report tries to tease out the precise effect of technology such as the TVs and computer screens that keep us sitting still instead of moving around.
It comes up with a surprisingly consistent statistic: For every 10 percent rise in what a country spends on information and communications technology, there?s a 1 percent increase in obesity rates.
Technology doesn?t just keep people in their chairs and on sofas, according to the report from the nonprofit Milken Institute. It changes the way people eat, also ? adding even more pounds than the lack of exercise alone would.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/48757019/ns/health-fitness/#.UDZPnNZlTjY
It comes up with a surprisingly consistent statistic: For every 10 percent rise in what a country spends on information and communications technology, there?s a 1 percent increase in obesity rates.
Technology doesn?t just keep people in their chairs and on sofas, according to the report from the nonprofit Milken Institute. It changes the way people eat, also ? adding even more pounds than the lack of exercise alone would.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/48757019/ns/health-fitness/#.UDZPnNZlTjY