{
  "id": 18084,
  "url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e95678",
  "title": "Social Media as a Driver of Obesity in Children and Adolescents (Aged 6-18 Years): It Is Time for Regulatory Action",
  "summary": "Obesity in children and adolescents is rising in China and globally, with health consequences that are already evident during childhood. This Viewpoint represents the authors’ interpretation of current evidence and policy experience, using China as an illustrative case for a wider international challenge. We argue that social media should be considered a modifiable obesogenic environment because it can amplify sedentary behavior, digital food marketing, disrupted sleep, body image pressures, cyb",
  "authors": "Yuwei Liu, Wenyun Li, Li Ming Wen, Gengsheng He",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,healthcare,children-education,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-10T21:00:24.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-11T05:10:37.351Z",
  "source_slug": "x-jmir-journal-of-medical-internet-researc",
  "source_name": "JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.jmir.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18084",
  "original_url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e95678",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}