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5 Negative Effects of Technology on Your Family Life (Part 2)
How badly has technology affected modern society, especially today's family life? Why is the impact of technology so great?
In the previous section, aFamilyToday Health introduced you to 2 negative effects of technology. Here are the 3 remaining effects of technology on your family's health, please refer together.
3. Eye symptoms
Human eye sentences are not easy to adapt to seeing any point over long periods of time. If you spend too much time in front of a computer screen, you are not only prone to obesity but also prone to eye strain, redness , blurred vision, eye irritation or double vision. However, this is only a temporary situation!
If you sit in front of a computer screen frequently, using monocular, bifocals, or sunglasses can help increase contrast, prevent glare, and radiation to minimize eye symptoms.
4. Insomnia
Working heavily with computer screens at night can wreak havoc on your body's biological clock. This is also the reason you can lose more sleep. Playing games in the dark prevents the body from releasing melatonin - a hormone that regulates the sleep and wake cycle in humans.
Watching too much TV can lead to the same harm. Babies who spend 2 to 3 hours watching TV every day are at risk of losing sleep as adults.
5. The members don't spend time together
Currently, on average, children use the internet more than 7 hours / day, equivalent to more than 50 hours per week. They will not be able to practice sports , meet friends, discuss with family or chat in person with other relationships.
This happens not only with the child but also for the parents themselves. How many times have you missed a meal just because of an important phone call, text message or email? How many times have you sat down to eat and just took a picture of a Facebook post to show off to your friends without really enjoying the atmosphere of a meal with your family?
In the age of iPad, computer games, Facebook and Instagram, ... family members look "close" but actually very "far".
However, there are also those who see technology as a tool that brings family members closer together. A typical example is a couple who, despite holding an iPad, reading newspapers, and watching movies, still share time together in the same room. The husband shared: “3 or 4 years ago, maybe I stayed in the living room to watch TV and my wife was reading books upstairs. I'm sure that thanks to the iPad, we spent 80% more time together than before, because even though we both have their own jobs, we are still together.
In short, whether technology affects our family's health and well-being is up to each of us. So, you should try to balance the time spent with technology, family and yourself!
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