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On average, obese participants spent 17 min more per day watching TV than non-obese participants (p<0.001), and also spent more time sitting overall, but did not spend more time in non-TV sitting.
However there is currently a lack of detailed information on the different types of sedentary behaviour and the context in which this takes place [ 5], sedentary behaviour being assessed in most previous studies by time spent sitting overall or time spent watching television [ 6].
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