The exercise hormone known as irisin has critical fat-burning properties.
News: Child Diabetes Risk Soars With 3-hrs Screen Time A Day
This screen time is applied to TV, tablets, mobile phones, games consoles and computers with under-fives in Britain spending over four hours and older children averaging over five and a half hours a day according to the communications watchdog Ofcom in the 2016 report Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2016.
Research: 10 minutes of high-intensity activity daily reduces body fat in children
Children who undertake 10 minutes of high-intensity physical activity per day reduce the amount of body fat and improve their aerobic fitness, according to a study from the University of Eastern Finland and Cambridge University published by Sports Medicine.