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Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday July 27 2019, @09:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the only-use-it-at-night dept.

upstart writes:

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Five or more hours of smartphone usage per day may increase obesity: Recent study found risk of obesity increased by 43%

As smartphones continue to be an inherent part of life and grow as a primary source of entertainment -- particularly among young people -- it leads to a decrease in physical activity. In a recent study presented at the ACC Latin America Conference 2019, university students who used their smartphones five or more hours a day had a 43 percent increased risk of obesity and were more likely to have other lifestyle habits that increase the risk of heart disease.

"It is important that the general population know and be aware that, although mobile technology is undoubtedly attractive for its multiple purposes, portability, comfort, access to countless services, information and entertainment sources, it should also be used to improve habits and healthy behaviors," said Mirary Mantilla-Morrón, a cardiac pulmonary and vascular rehabilitation specialist at the Health Sciences Faculty at the Simón Bolívar University in Barranquilla, Colombia, and the lead author of the study. "Spending too much time in front of the Smartphone facilitates sedentary behaviors, reduces the time of physical activity, which increases the risk of premature death, diabetes, heart disease, different types of cancer, osteoarticular discomfort and musculoskeletal symptoms."

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 27 2019, @12:49PM (10 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday July 27 2019, @12:49PM (#871892) Journal

    All sorts of things, not just one system, and many of them intercnnected. Leptin insensitivity, insulin insensitivity, sugar overload, liver damage due to fructose and/or alcohol consumption, hormonal mimics in the water, lack of magnesium and potassium in the diet and reduced levels of same in produce due to overintensive monocropping...the list goes on.

    We humans like to make up simple, linear narratives. Reality is more complicated than that; everything is connected and new phenomena emerge from interactions of other pre-existing ones.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @02:14PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @02:14PM (#871917)

    everything is connected

    Be careful, if you follow this to its logical conclusion you will realize we need to redo all health, psychology, etc research since about 1940 since the conclusions are all based on the premise that connections between any two variables are rare and special (ie, "statistically significant").

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 27 2019, @02:22PM (5 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday July 27 2019, @02:22PM (#871921) Homepage Journal

      Or she'll end up starting a holistic detective agency. Could go either way.

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 27 2019, @09:21PM (4 children)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday July 27 2019, @09:21PM (#872094) Journal

        Watch it, or I may just gently slip a dirk between your fourth and fifth ribs when you're not paying attention...the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach after all :)

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    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 27 2019, @09:18PM (2 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday July 27 2019, @09:18PM (#872093) Journal

      Depending on what the variables and connections are, they might be rare and/or special. There is such a thing as degrees of separation or freedom. I don't get why people like you have this utter inability to see nuance. It's either "dependent variables don't exist period" or "oh look, NOW she says everything's connected exactly as strongly in all directions as everything else! MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!!1111ONE"

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @09:55PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @09:55PM (#872099)

        Depending on what the variables and connections are, they might be rare and/or special. There is such a thing as degrees of separation or freedom.

        Sure, but the primary determinant of publishing your results is "statistical significance", which has nothing to do with that.

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 28 2019, @09:10PM

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday July 28 2019, @09:10PM (#872402) Journal

          Are you that one AC who has a permanent stick up his arse about hypothesis testing?

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