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Nearly All US Teens Short On Sleep, Exercise (usnews.com)
UPI reports: Too little sleep. Not enough exercise. Far too much "screen time." That is the unhealthy lifestyle of nearly all U.S. high school students, new research finds. The study, of almost 60,000 teenagers nationwide, found that only 5 percent were meeting experts' recommendations on three critical health habits: sleep; exercise; and time spent gazing at digital media and television... "Five percent is a really low proportion," said study leader Gregory Knell, a research fellow at University of Texas School of Public Health, in Dallas. "We were a bit surprised by that...."
"If kids are viewing a screen at night -- staring at that blue light -- that may affect their ability to sleep," Knell said. "And if you're not getting enough sleep at night, you're going to be more tired during the day," he added, "and you're not going to be as physically active."
Experts recommend a minimum of 8 hours of sleep at night for teenagers, plus at least one hour every day of "moderate to vigorous" exercise.
One professor of adolescent medicine points out that some high school homework now even requires using a computer -- even though too much screen time can affect teenagers' abiity to sleep.
"If kids are viewing a screen at night -- staring at that blue light -- that may affect their ability to sleep," Knell said. "And if you're not getting enough sleep at night, you're going to be more tired during the day," he added, "and you're not going to be as physically active."
Experts recommend a minimum of 8 hours of sleep at night for teenagers, plus at least one hour every day of "moderate to vigorous" exercise.
One professor of adolescent medicine points out that some high school homework now even requires using a computer -- even though too much screen time can affect teenagers' abiity to sleep.
And decent parents. We are doing what the Chinese are doing and leaving kids to be raised by either grandparents or left to raise themselves.
Hell of a future we've been left.
Do you really think that corporations that wreck your privacy at every turn, even invent an "internet of extremely insecure things" for this very purpose, care whether you get diabetes, or suffer a stroke or a heart attack before you reach 50? They also don't care what happens to your eyesight, or your brain for that matter (hint hint: 5G communications). Oh look - genius Elon Musk shot his Tesla car into space!
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
Schools don’t care. Schools care about payroll.
According to his understanding of logic that's what the summary implies.
"You don't need education, just a cavernous asshole to reach into to pull out Libertarian retard talking points. All educations are the same waste of time, look at me!" - Kohath
Maybe a series of seminars too?
I'm also going to try to work this into a sentence at work on Monday too
Golly, if these machines are capable of thinking, why not just instruct the machines to turn off at night?
Lets see your chalk slate manage that.
I lived in a city where I lived 20 minutes away from work and it was pretty difficult to get home have supper and get the kids to all their extra-curricular activities. Don't know how parents with a commute time with an hour or more are supposed to do it.
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Either their parents do it, a sibling or extended relative does it, or they get another parent they know or trust to do it for them. This has been true for 30-50 years, since I was a kid, and I heard stories predating it.
"You don't need education, just a cavernous asshole to reach into to pull out Libertarian retard talking points. All educations are the same waste of time, look at me!" - Kohath
That got +2. Slashdot is so toxic, that is considered a good comment.
Of all the comments on this story, that was the only one receiving moderation at the time of me writing this. Two people think that is deserving of attention, but nothing else did.
Slashdot continues it's downard slide, slimily passing all but the worst of reddit with narry a second look on the way down.
Reddit censors everything. Anything right-of-left gets downvoted to zero there. Slashdot does not.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
what about slashdot readers? Sleep? Exercise? LOL.
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We're being pushed to commit 24/7 on every job or else we're labeled as lazy retards that do not deserve anything at all.
Slashdot is so toxic
It's a reflection of the rest of society. Cultural leaders celebrate and reward hate because they're terrible people. Followers respond because they are followers. It's not headed for a peaceful ending. They still have time to change course and give up on being haters. They know it's making their lives worse for no benefit to anyone.
Slashdot has started deleting spam comments and their replies lately. Funny a "news for nerds" site can't figure out some filtering.
Who is going to have the skills, intelligence and needed fitness to make it into special forces in the numbers needed every generation?
So much to carry, have to be smart.
The water, communications, mil equipment, battery, food. Adds up to weight over long distances at elevation.
Its not much use to try and make someone that fit and smart over a year in the mil.
Decades of trying to teach IQ and fitness did not work.
Thats needs years of fitness and endurance to be ready for the advanced mil projects.
The US needs to make mil service fun again.
Sport and education need to be ready for years before entering the US mil.
Make competitive sport great again. With the winning and teams.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
In the 1980â(TM)s we didnâ(TM)t have the Internet, so we watched VHS tape movies and then drank beer & got high together. Much better!
"Who is going to have the skills, intelligence and needed fitness to make it" - NOT YOU HUXLEY MORON
You work where the jobs are. We've had 20 years of non stop outsourcing and layoff heavy mergers. Just because you happened to blunder into a steady job doesn't mean the rest have.
And then there's inflation. Raises stopped keeping pace with inflation in the 70s and stopped entirely in the mid 2000s. So even if you do have a stead job you're gonna have to leave it every 3-5 years to look for better paying work. Companies don't promote or train because they can just get an H1-B if they can't find somebody with the skills they want.
The GOP put poison pills in the ACA. You can't get on it if your employer offers healthcare, no matter how shitty the plan. Many states didn't expand Medicaid and go out of their way to keep folks off it. Unless your completely destitute you're not getting it. Nobody has pride when they're in need of a doctor. There's no nice way to say this, You're being an ass. I've had friends and family with severe illness and I speak from bitter experience. And this is _before_ Trump gutted the ACA as best he could the bastard.
Used cars break, constantly. If you've got the kind of job that doesn't pay you enough to buy a decent car it's probably the kind of job that will fire you for being late. Again, I speak from bitter experience.
Congrats, you and your family have avoided most of the bad stuff in the world and nobody around you that you care enough about has gotten gut punched by the American system such that you got dragged down with them. This is the problem with people. They don't understand a thing if it doesn't happen to them personally or maybe their immediate family. It's like all those country western singers that got shot up by that nut job in Las Vegas. They were all crazy pro gun until they experienced first hand what it's like to be shot at by a mad man and how utterly powerless you really are even when you're packing heat.
I wish we had that Grok thing from Stranger in a Strange land. That ability to make people _understand_. I doubt you made it this far into my comment but if you did I've probably just pissed you off and made you double down in your misconceptions. If I knew how to get through to guys like you I'd be president and I'd fix this shit fast.
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A pertinent topic. Would be nice to have an actual scientific article with methodology and the other trappings of science attached.
Imagine being so disconnected from reality that you think Reddit skews left.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...
8 hours of sleep is too much, not realistic and not even healthy.
An hour of exercise give me a break maybe half that. No serious person recommends 8hrs of sleep and an hour of exercise as minimums. TFA is exclusively the province of trolls who want to whore attention / click bait.
You're completely useless, agreed.
Soon enough, what people think is "good for teenagers" will result in them spending all of their time doing mandated body-maintenance activity, overloaded and pointless homework, and generally working their ass off for little point other than they're "supposed to." Not a good way to actually enjoy life.
Sounds like a great way to produce neurotic factory workers. I suspect that "screen time" isn't the only issue here.
What studies are these experts basing their comparations on?
What evidence is there that there is even a thing such as too much even time? Could that be an assumption or is there really hard evidence?
As to exercise, the whole experts recommend thing is not convincing, where is the data. I'm getting tired of hearing new trends in what is healthy every six months. If it is healthy it should not change. It's not like the human body morphs constantly. Where is the actual science?
Basing studies on bad data only results in bad studies.
Well, that seems obvious, but the SJW mob doesn't seem like it's going to change anytime soon. Whole categories of inquiry about race, gender, sexuality, religion, ability, and identity can only go so far before the enquirer exercises prudent self-censorship or is shut down as racist, sexist, or x-phobic.
These lines of inquiry are judged so out of bounds that they donâ(TM)t require a response based on evidence or argument. Rather it is sufficient to identify them as falling into a particular category (sexist/homophobic/Islamophobic/racist or socialist/collectivist/globalist/secularist depending on context and oneâ(TM)s politics) to discredit them. Once the appropriate category is identified, one is freed from the need to counter the argument or debate the point. It might be called refutation by categorization.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
https://www.goodreads.com/book...
"The first sleep book by a leading scientific expertâ"Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeleyâ(TM)s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab -- reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.
Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life -- eating, drinking, and reproducing -- the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming. Within the brain, sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge to inspire creativity.
Walker answers important questions about sleep: how do caffeine and alcohol affect sleep? What really happens during REM sleep? Why do our sleep patterns change across a lifetime? How do common sleep aids affect us and can they do long-term damage? Charting cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and synthesizing decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood, and energy levels; regulate hormones; prevent cancer, Alzheimer's, and diabetes; slow the effects of aging; increase longevity; enhance the education and lifespan of our children, and boost the efficiency, success, and productivity of our businesses. Clear-eyed, fascinating, and accessible, Why We Sleep is a crucial and illuminating book."
See also: "Lecture entitled "Why We Sleep" by Professor Matthew Walker of the University of California, Berkeley."
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A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
No seatbelts in the back of the station wagon, sipping Dad's beer, candy between meals, watched TV until the broadcast ended, sugary pop every single day.
Yet we weren't a fat slugs constantly depressed.
and it breaks all the God damn time. I average about $116/mo keeping it running. It's still a cash savings and I happen to have a job that lets me get away with it (got a kid in college so I can't afford to replace it).
If you're buying something as new as 2010 that doesn't have crazy miles on it expect to pay $8-$10k unless a relative gives it to you cheap. No, I'm not exaggerating, that's from a quick check of my local area. The used car market has gone nuts. Doesn't help that an entry level 4 door sedan is $16k after taxes and fees.
You don't get to pick where you born. And moving is _expensive_. And where the fuck do you get somebody to pay your mortgage? Listen to yourself man, You sound like Mitt "Why don't the poor just buy more money" Rhomney.
You're either trolling (likely, you insulted me) or trying to do something about the guilt you feel for abandoning people to their fate. Either way what goes around comes around. In 20 years after a few layoffs you'll come around to my way of thinking... when it's too late and you're stuck working 3 jobs to get by, maybe dying of a heart attack in the process. You know, you could stop all that right now.
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it came from the Heritage Foundation, one of their think tanks. It wasn't at all what Obama or the Democrats wanted, it's what they could get past the right wing Congress. Go look up "Blue Dog Democrats". Nancy Pelosi's men are busy telling insurance companies that she's got their back when it comes to their profits.
It's almost as if corporatism is the problem, and not the party. Show up to your bloody primary election and vote the bastards out and we can easily fix this. As it stands the ACA was the best we can do with guys like you putting right wingers into power.
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Yeah, I used to hate it when rightists used the same methods. The surest sign of the bully is that they will categorize at a glance: don't fit the glance, and the "not one of us" gene kicks in, and the derogatory nicknames come flowing out. It seemed the leftists have learned how effective that technique is. And that disappoints me to no end.
"We have met the enemy, and they is us".
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain