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.

Comments

Re:Kohath the deplorable anti-education retard sez

[Anonymous Coward]

"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.

Re:Extra-cirricular

[b0s0z0ku]

Live below their means. One income or one income and a part-time job. Get on ACA, take the subsidies, don't be too bourgeois to take advantage of Medicaid if needed any your state offers it. It's a public option, and most other civilized countries offer public insurance with no shame. Buy a duplex, not a McHouse, have the tenants pay most of your mortgage. Drive a used car that's paid off. But no ... most "middle class" people are too cowardly and brainwarshed to be seen as "poors."

Re:Kohath the deplorable anti-education retard sez

[Kohath]

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.

Oh boy, where to start

[rsilvergun]

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.