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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.
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.
It's not even the parents' choice in many cases. There's a lot of pressure from society (God, I hate that stinking word). To live like the Joneses, you need two incomes in 2019, and American employers demand 50+ hour work weeks. I mean, you can get around this bullshit by having one income and living in a duplex, driving used cars, not buying electronics every year, but most people are too cowardly to not do what society and the advertisers tell them to.