Hamer, M;
Weiler, R;
Stamatakis, E;
(2014)
Watching sport on television, physical activity, and risk of obesity in older adults.
BMC Public Health
, 14
(1)
, Article 10. 10.1186/1471-2458-14-10.
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Abstract
Television (TV) viewing has been associated with obesity although the effects of specific TV content on health and other behaviours remains unknown. We examined the association between watching sport on TV, physical activity levels, and risk of obesity.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Watching sport on television, physical activity, and risk of obesity in older adults. |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-10 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-10 |
| Additional information: | © 2014 Hamer et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| Keywords: | Ageing; Epidemiology; Health promotion; Obesity; Physical activity; Sedentary |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Surgery and Interventional Sci |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1423753 |
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