Is obesity prevention as simple as turning off the television and having a nap? | Obesity Panacea

Is obesity prevention as simple as turning off the television and having a nap? | Obesity Panacea: Regular readers of Obesity Panacea will know that spending too much time sitting/lying down increases your risk for all sorts of health problems. For example, prolonged sedentary behaviour rapidly leads to insulin resistance and increases the amount of fat in your blood in adults. Excess sitting (especially sitting in front of the TV) is also associated with all manner of physical, social and psychological health problems in both pre-schoolers and school-aged children (especially excess weight gain). If that isn’t enough, it has been estimated that every hour of TV viewing shortens your life expectancy by 22 minutes, and that excess TV watching reduces the collective life expectancy of Americans by about 1.4 years (details here).