{"id":78369,"date":"2025-08-07T12:40:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78369"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:40:53","slug":"study-reveals-health-risks-of-excessive-screen-time-in-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/07\/study-reveals-health-risks-of-excessive-screen-time-in-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals health risks of excessive screen time in teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1K2S93.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=365&amp;y=213&amp;s=85&amp;d=85\" alt=\"GettyImages-468968416\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">Excessive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/screen-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">screen time<\/a>\u00a0in children and young adults significantly increases the risk of heart-related\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">health<\/a>\u00a0conditions such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/high-blood-pressure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">high blood pressure<\/a>, high cholesterol, and insulin resistance.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/study-reveals-health-risks-of-excessive-screen-time-in-teens\/ar-AA1K2Pry?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6894914a04514eac96ae5503f15e696e&amp;ei=56\"> Read More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Excessive\u00a0screen time\u00a0in children and young adults significantly increases the risk of heart-related\u00a0health\u00a0conditions such as\u00a0high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and insulin resistance. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/teen-phone-addiction.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78370,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78369\/revisions\/78370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}