🌐 The Digital Double Edge: Internet Addiction and its Profound Impact on Health The Internet, the greatest tool in human history, began as a revolutionary source of knowledge, communication, and freedom. In the modern era, it has transformed into a Digital Ocean, where navigation can be both beneficial and destructive. While connectivity offers countless advantages, excessive, compulsive, and uncontrolled use has given rise to a new, serious form of dependency: Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) . IAD is not merely about spending too much time online. It is a condition where Internet use becomes the dominant activity in an individual's life, causing significant distress and functional impairment in all areas of daily life: personal, social, academic, and professional. Although it has not yet been fully included as an official diagnosis in the main diagnostic manual DSM-5 (with the exception of "Internet Gaming Disorder"), the clinical and research community recognizes i...
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OBESITY
Obesity
is a phenomenon that takes globally large dimensions. A person is considered
obese when excessive fat accumulated to body abnormally to their age. Obesity as it is referred in various sources
in the international press, internet etc. are mainly cardiovascular diseases, diabetes type 2, obstructive sleep apnea,
possibly cancer, cancer of breast for women, osteoarthritis, and asthma. The
main cause of obesity is big quantity of food, many calories per day, and sedentary lifestyle. Only systematically
health diet and controlling of the quantity of food and daily calories may
reduce the dangers that obesity can lead, and regular exercise the body.
Megaartvision © Xaroula Koutsouroumba
Megaartvision © Xaroula Koutsouroumba
The
obese person must take care of gradually losing pounds and not abruptly, and be systematic in maintaining proper diet
and exercise.
A
survey conducted at Harvard published the Internet showed that obesity in the
next decade will become a major form of cancer and more dangerous than smoking
Thank you for reading my article.
Author
Charoula Koutsouroumpa
RN Bachelor Nurse Professor
06/02/2015
More information and references
about obesity you may find in the following links:
https://www.youtube.com/user/MegaArtvision
http://www.epipsi.gr/pdf/2011/10_HBSC_2010_EPIPSI_2012.pdf http://eyzin.minedu.gov.gr/Pages/Parents/
http://www.iatronet.gr/diatrofi/adynatisma-diaita/article/31169/poio-einai-oi-kindynoi-apo-tis-exantlitikes-diaites.html
http://www.xeirourgiki-paxisarkia.gr/obesity_cause.php
http://www.paxysarkia.net/
http://www.tovima.gr/society/article/?aid=604713
http://www.iatropedia.gr/index/section/6
http://www.ethnos.gr/article.asp?catid=22769&subid=2&pubid=64195943 http://www.neaygeia.gr/page.asp?p=402
http://el.wikipedia.org/Παχυσαρκία http://ww5.komen.org/BreastCancer/OverweightWeightGain.html
http://www.iatronet.gr/diatrofi/adynatisma-diaita/article/31169/poio-einai-oi-kindynoi-apo-tis-exantlitikes-diaites.html
http://www.xeirourgiki-paxisarkia.gr/obesity_cause.php
http://www.paxysarkia.net/
http://www.tovima.gr/society/article/?aid=604713
http://www.iatropedia.gr/index/section/6
http://www.ethnos.gr/article.asp?catid=22769&subid=2&pubid=64195943 http://www.neaygeia.gr/page.asp?p=402
http://el.wikipedia.org/Παχυσαρκία http://ww5.komen.org/BreastCancer/OverweightWeightGain.html
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