When we age its easy to look back at how our bodies used to be, and often the superior performance you could get out of them. Personally I remember living in chicago years ago and walking back and forth to the train, to work, to school, to my apartment. In short, the milage was high. The amazing thing is given the proper amount of time you can visibly see large scale changes. Since then my legs are much thinner, a loss of specifically muscle mass.
So the obvious truth is I spend most of my time now playing videogames, driving, or on my computer. This all counts as sedentary behavior. The question is how is this related to technology. What is the cost of the screen time to our bodies themselves?
Interestingly, sedentary time has a stronger negative health effects when combined with screen time. As opposed to sedentary time engaged in other behavior. I am utilizing the phrase "screen time" despite its seemingly exclusivity with childhood behavior in medical terms. It seems to be a pacifier-like behavior to reach for a device contantly so "screen time" feels like a pertinent term.
So what is it about screen time that heightens the negative effects on the body? According too research screen time is more harmful to a childs overall health. While an adult has a more, thus far, inconclusive relationship to it. The most striking health risk for adults is cardiovascular. What needs to change? Or perhaps there is no solution.
