Even with all the video games and computer time, the amount of excercise that teens get on a daily basis hasn’t changed much since 1991. But the rate of teen obesity has increased dramatically.
The report, published last week in the journal Obesity Reviews, finds that the amount of physical activity among U.S. teens has not in fact changed significantly over the past two decades, even while that population has gotten heavier. “On the one hand, we have seen the obesity-prevalence increase, but we don’t see a decrease in physical activity,” says Dr. Youfa Wang, an associate professor at the Center for Human Nutrition at Hopkins and lead author of the study. “This suggests that physical activity is not a good explanation for the increase in prevalence of obesity.”
It’s gotta be the eating, folks.
