Teens, Screens, and Metabolic Syndrome

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When I first began looking into the research behind screens and the stress response  a few years ago, there was one major study linking screen-time to metabolic syndrome (defined below) in adolescents.  Now, just a short time later, the evidence has become quite robust.

 

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mental-wealth/201301/teens-screens-and-metabolic-syndrome

 

This syndrome hypothesis is extremely interesting and goes very well hand-in-hand with all the warnings I have issued over the last three decades

 

Olle Johansson

The Experimental Dermatology Unit

Department of Neuroscience

Karolinska Institute

171 77 Stockholm