Television linked with diabetes?

If your child is a diabetic, do you let them watch quite a bit of television or do you encourage more physical activity? Watching TV (a sedentary activity) can lead to a tougher time controlling blood sugar for diabetic children, according to a study of of Norway. Surprise? Most likely, no.

The research made it a point to say that the suggestion of children watching no more than two hours of television per day still stood as valid.

One interesting note to the study was that diabetic children with higher blood sugar levels may be too ill to do much beyond watching television (a sad fact).

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