Is your smartphone making you fat and lazy?

Did you have before running this morning, but wasted too much time reading Twitter messages on the iPhone? If you're in the gym, people give you the evil eye, because you are sitting on a weight machine and a text with a friend?If you answered yes to any of these questions, you can become a "hyper" couch potato.According to a study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, frequent mobile phone users were much more likely to give up or disturb the movement and scored lower on physical fitness assessments than their peers who used cell phones less often.Despite its compact size and mobility of smartphones physical activity seems easier, the ever-present temptation, e-mail, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, Games, Pinterest, Instagram, surfing the Internet, sharing photos, or talk to friends and family will have the opposite effect for some.

"While many phones from the same temptations, television and computers connected to the Internet, the difference is that cell phones fit into pockets and purses and are with us wherever we have to go," the researchers from the University of Kent State wrote. "That's why offer an ever-present invitation to" sit down and play. "The study began with a random survey of 305 students, all were asked about cell phone use, according to author Andrew Lepp, associate professor of recreation, parks and tourism management, and lead his colleagues.Students who register applies only for 90 minutes per day of low-frequency users from around 5 hours per day were moderate users averaged. Students who spent up to 14 hours on his cell phone were as heavy users.In the second phase of the study, 49 of the students surveyed were selected at random for testing. The students ran on a treadmill to exhaustion to determine their cardiopulmonary fitness, and had their body fat measured.The authors found that heavy smartphone users were more inclined to sedentary behavior of light users. Heavy users also had lower cardiorespiratory fitness levels than those with less use.The study participants reported that the intensive use had a negative effect on the level of activity."Now I have spent the iPhone, I would say definitely reduces my physical activity because you only had a BlackBerry," a big user of the researchers. "Well, if I get bored, I can download what you want and sit down to play."Another major consumer of agreement."One of my friends called me during my training, and I like, I have not talked to her for a while and I had a lot of things to talk about. This is how it distracted me from my training," said study author Authors matter.Interestingly, said the students who fell under the category of telephone low-power devices, they become more active, as they were able to coordinate, leisure activities with friends.But exercise once in physical activity, the subjects were with little use of more as your phone or set it aside.