Is there a correlation between Internet use and weight?

A new survey from the Journal of Medicial Internet Research states that Australians using the computer and the Internet for more than 5 hours a week were 1.5 times more likely to be overweight and 2.5 times more likely to be obese than people who didn’t use the computer at all. The people using the computer the most were 2.5 times more likely to do more than five hours a day of other sedentary activities.

So, what does this all mean? That’s the big question.

“Is it that you become overweight because you use the Internet a lot, or is it that overweight people simply use the Internet more?” asked Corneel Vandelanotte, Ph.D., postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Health and Social Science Research at Central Queensland University.

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