Name: How Gadgets Have Finally Changed Our Body Shape
Uploaded: 2020-03-12T03:00:05.000Z
Duration: 9 min 32 s
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What do you usually do while waiting for a bus or sitting on the subway on your way to

I like to tie a $20 bill on a string, toss it on the floor and snatch it away when people

If you're like a lot of people, you're watching the screen of your smartphone or tablet.

Our gadgtes are closer to us than anything or anyone else.

They're a source of information, communication, and fun.

But it's good to keep in mind that our devotion to our gadgets is bad for the spine.

American scientists have found out that we spend more than 2 hours a day looking at the

screens of our smartphones, and touch them almost 3000 times.

Their Australian colleagues went further and did a study on how gadgets influence our health.

218 people aged 18 to 30 took part in the research.

Doctor David Shahar found a small bone appendix in the back of the head of 41% of the participants.

He took into account smaller growths, but 10% of the participants had a strange appendix

Its maximum length was 1.4 inches for men and 1 inch for women.

During the second study, scientists examined 1,200 people aged 18 to 86.

The results showed that it was mainly young people who had the appendix.

Doctor Shahar and his colleagues assumed that the extra growth, and damage, was caused by

Using gadgets makes us bend our head unnaturally low and keep it in this position for an absurdly

As a result, the weight of the head is distributed differently, which causes huge amounts of

pressure on the place where the muscles are attached to the skull, leading to changes

The average time people spend with their eyes glued to the screen grew by 3 times in only

one year, between 2010 and 2011, and it keeps growing.

Doctor Shahar says that because of this growing screen time, each following generation will

Scientists believe that the appendix itself poses no danger, but a spinal curvature does.

Really, if you yank your head off your body and put it on a scale, you’ll be, you know,

deceased, but 11 pounds is about what your head will weigh.

Now, it’s a stable weight if the head is in a vertical position.

But the more we bend our head forward, the heavier it becomes in relation to the neck.

It weighs 27 pounds at a 15-degree angle, 40 pounds at 30, 49 pounds at 45 degrees and

Can you imagine your head weighing 60 pounds and your poor neck having to bear it?

A short experiment will allow you to feel the pressure your spine feels.

Bend a finger to the back of your hand as low as you can, and try to keep it in this

I doubt that you'll be able to do it, even for a minute, but if you did, the tissues

The same thing happens to your neck and spine, even if you don’t feel it right away.

This is the price we pay for the possibility to be in touch 24/7, have any book, music

or film at hand and not carry anything heavier than a smartphone or a tablet.

Our bond with the gadgets is inseparable, so this inflammation happens daily, all the

There’s even a term referring to the specific slope of neck that appears as a result of

The term “text neck” appeared in 2008, when Dr. Dean L. Fishman observed a 17-year-old

The teenager complained of headaches and pain in the neck.

This problem has become a true epidemic since then.

Doctors say that children and teenagers ages 8 to18 spend 7.5 hours watching the screens

But it’s not only the young ones, it’s all of us.

Chronic pressure causes problems, some of which can be solved only by surgeons.

Long-term stretching and straining leads to an inflammatory process in our tissues.

After that, nerves can get restricted, disks rupture, and the natural curve of the neck

People start feeling worse; they have aches in the neck and spine, and later – headaches

Bad posture also leads to other issues, like lowering the volume of the lungs.

Try to take a full breath when you’re hunched over your smartphone.

When you don't breathe properly, your blood gets less oxygen, and brings less of this

precious gas to all the organs, including the brain.

The pressure on your inner organs caused by bad posture can lead to problems with your

Another thing caused by gadgets is less crucial for the health of your neck, but detrimental

It’s a double chin, which appears even with young and slim girls and boys.

The soft tissues behind your chin sag down, lose their elasticity, and form what we call

High Energy Visible Light, or HEV, which the screens of smartphones, tablets and PCs radiate,

can cause premature wrinkles and pigmentation, and make skin hypersensitive.

All these effects are called digital aging.

We don’t see it immediately, but with time, our face can get reddish, inflamed, and dry.

It’s hard to imagine our life without gadgets, but there are steps we can take to reduce

Here’re some advice: Keep your smartphone at the level of your

eyes so that your head stays in a vertical position and doesn’t bend.

But if you hold it like this all the time, it may cause problems with your shoulders

later, since there will be extra stress on them, so it's good to change positions frequently.

If you’re sitting, keep your feet on the floor, set your shoulders back and make sure

your ears are right above them, so that your head doesn’t bend forward.

You can also use a hands-free set, when you talk on the phone.

Studies also advise using 2 hands and 2 thumbs for texting – it'll create a more symmetrical

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