Screen access in bedrooms may be tied to childhood obesity

From The Globe and Mail (Toronto)/The Hot Button blog (tiered subscription model) (10/22):

Children who had access to screens -- televisions, DVD players, video games, computers or cellphones -- in their bedrooms were more likely to be overweight than those without access, a Canadian study in the journal Pediatric Obesity found. Increased TV time at night also could increase the risk of childhood obesity, researchers said, because an extra hour of sleep curbed the risk of obesity by up to 30%.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/technology-in-kids-bedrooms-lead-to-poorer-health-study-suggests/article4629411/