Internet addiction Trigger Obesity
If you intend to attenuate body, do not just reduce the size of the meal on the plate only. Ssebaiknya also reduce your time in front of the net. A study in Australia says that those who spend time with the internet at risk of obesity.
In the Journal of Medical Internet, researchers conducted a survey of 2650 adults in Australia about physical activity, the internet, play computer games, reading, watching and other activities conducted during the respondent is in the spare time to learn to do with the disease of obesity.
Researchers also tried to focus and compare the two main activities, namely the Internet and physical activity (sports, walking). Both activities are divided into categories tidk never, rarely (less than 3 hours per week) and high (more than 3 hours per week).
The survey results also showed that those who frequently use the internet and computers were 1.5 to 2 times more fat than those who never dealing with computers.
They are often dealing with the Internet also reported less physical activity. Even those who frequently use the internet but do any physical activity still remains to be heavier than those who do not use the internet at all.
“Actually, the Internet is causing many overweight or obese people more frequently use the Internet? To be sure, this study shows that the internet and computers to be one cause of obesity,” said Corneel Vandelanotte, Ph.D., a researcher from the Institute for Health and Social Science Research at Central Queensland University was quoted as saying of Health.
They are more often confronted with the Internet and other applications on mobile computers tend to be lazy and prefer to keep activities like reading, watching and more. That’s what causes obesity, because the calories into the body does not burn out with just stand still. ”Reading, watching TV and playing games will not burn calories,” said Corneel.
To prevent Internet users and computers become obese, you should enter the sport or other physical activity into a regular schedule every day. Try to limit the time for the event in front of a computer or other fixed activities and balance with physical activity.
The less time you front of the computer or the internet and more and more time for physical activity, you will become more healthy.The American College of Sports Medicine also suggested those who want to be thin and stay healthy to exercise 150 to 250 minutes per week.