The Negative Speech : Social Media Addictions

Whether we are a couch potato for one or six hours on any given day it still affects us. We all have periods where we become a couch potato for a while but for some of us, those periods are far too often and last a bit too long, and new research is showing that laying back and being a lazy couch potato is more detrimental to our health than we had previously thought.

Social media is killing you! I know that got your attention, but it is taking your time. Nowadays, a lot of people are using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and so on. Social media is a bad thing for use, so I’m going to be exhibiting to you all about it. Since the Internet has propagated rapidly, social media has progressed a lot. The generalization of the internet makes us to live conveniently and fast. People are using smart phones, laptops or comfortable devices which can access to internet. These equipment’s allow us to use social media easily. It helps contact friends, family, and other people even though they live far away. It could be, however, abused, if you don’t use properly. Especially, it is important that we understand and regulate the use of social media for young children.

In Sumathi Reddy’s article “The Price We Pay for Sitting Too Much”, Reddy briefly examines the harms of sedentary behaviour. She suggests that in order to avoid them, one must do no more then increase the time they spend standing throughout the day. The article is aimed at working adults and suggest multiple schedules for increasing time on your feet and consequently, reducing sedentary behaviour. Some of the routines suggested are unrealistic for a busy person, such as the one preposed by Dr. Allan Hedge and Nasa. Hedge suggests that every thirty minutes, one should spend 20 minutes seated, 8 minutes standing and 2 minutes walking or stretching. Nasa’s recommended routine is simpler, but still slightly impractical. They suggest that one should

Increases in this type of behaviour has been associated with significant increases in the risk of developing chronic diseases with an increase of 112% relative risk of diabetes being reported by Wilmot et al (2012). A significant amount of research is now being conducted into the effect that prolonged sitting, as a sedentary behaviour, has on the risk of type-2 diabetes. The main effect of sitting idle for a prolonged amount of time is that the muscles required for upright movement such as the legs, back and truck, become redundant. The result of this is that we consequently decrease the energy expended as result of intermittent muscular contractions throughout the waking day (Hamilton et al 2007). One particular study found that an increase in 1 hour of television watching in which the participants would be seated, there was a 26% increase in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in women (Dunstan et al 2005). Bed rest studies have also been used to assess the affects of prolonged inactivity in relation to insulin action and glucose

Just by carrying out usual daily activities, you very well could be decreasing your life expectancy. According to the article, “Sitting Too Much Ages You by 8 Years”, by Alice Park, the author claims the following, Sitting too much during the day has been linked to a host of diseases, from obesity to heart problems and diabetes, as well as early death.” The author claims that sitting too much leads to a number of health risks due to being non-active. So if you are lowering your life span, how long will you live then? The answer to this question is found in the article, “The Average Life Expectancy Could Soon Reach Above 90 Years Old”, the author states the following, “ Americans will continue to

Men who work in professions that require sitting for extended periods of time are generally more unhealthy than those who are active during their work day. Being sedentary for eight or more hours decreases the efficiency of the circulatory system, increases weight gain, and lessens a man's stamina. If you work at a job that requires you to sit at a desk, make sure that you are moving around at least ten minutes out of every hour.

Long stretches of sitting aren’t good for anyone, so in addition to your 30 minutes of daily exercise make sure you interrupt your sitting with a short walk or even just some stretches. This can help fight heart disease, obesity, depression, osteoporosis, and even cancer.

According to Tom Rath, author of Eat Move Sleep, “Sitting is the most underrated health threat of modern time” (as cited in Stearns, 2016, p.12). Researchers are unsure how long people can sit without any consequences to their health, but know that two hours is too long (Lytle, 2017). According to James Levine, an endocrinologist at Mayo Clinic, sitting for even one hour straight is too long (Stearns, 2016). The workplace is a cause of the “sitting disease” (Selby, 2015). This is not only because a chair and table are the number one workstation for the office, but also because technological advances have led workers to rely on desktop computers (Karol and Robertson, 2015; Studebaker and Murphy, 2014). Sitting limits blood flow to the lower body (Komath, 2016). High sitting chairs, where feet do not touch the ground, cause people to rest their feet on a stool or other part of the chair, which does not allow for posture changes (Corlett, 2009). Many business leaders, including Lucas Carr, an assistant professor of health and human physiology at the University of Iowa, believe that workers should not be required to sit in a chair all day (Lytle, 2017). Carr says, “We were not designed to sit all day. We were designed to move” (as cited in Lytle, 2017,

Dr. Helen Lee, a DC practitioner and founder of Touch of Life Chiropractic in Hoffman Estates, Illinois said: "Sitting for long periods of time and doing year after year can make circulation decreases, metabolism slows, imbalance of sugar

It’s very important to keep the body healthy and functioning. Over the years, people of all ages have changed their lifestyle. They moved from keeping their body in a healthy shape, to just not caring. When adults are getting off of work, they are not spending enough time doing a physical activity or exercising like they should. In the article, Obesity in America: What’s Driving the Epidemic,” over the decades, the fraction of Americans who say they meet national guidelines for leisure-time exercise has remained stable at 25%—but objective measurements suggest the actual percentage of adults who get enough exercise is closer to 5%” (Harvard Men’s Health watch). When an individual has a desk job, their body needs the physical activity on a daily basis to keep the body healthy. A decrease in physical movement at work, will not lead to obesity. It’s the lack of exercise when they get home. The average weight of an individual is more because we sit and eat

In the article “Killer Chairs” author James Levine proposes that sitting all day can cause various health issues. When a person moves, most of the food consumed will be converted into energy instead of being stored as fat, and a lack of movement can create various health issues like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc. One of the author’s clients was 50 pounds overweight and was going to have to start insulin injections for his diabetes. The client was advised to conduct two of his meetings a day through walking, instead of sitting in a meeting room; this simple change would enable him to burn 400 additional calories per day. The client took the author’s advice and lost 25 pounds the first year, and 10 more pounds the following year and

As for the sit-stand desks, Samatakis (2017) agrees that they could be a starting point for the unfit sedentary workers. However, he laments the desks are not of much solution because there is not much energy expending or exertion from the people who use them. People tend to become less active physically, especially after work thinking they did their part already for having used the sit-stand desks at the office work place. Samatikis suggestion in tackling this problem is, if one does not want to walk, cannot walk, exercise or cycle, a useful option would be to reduce amount of spent sitting time. To experience reduced same risks of mortality from heart diseases, cancers when one exercises at least once or twice a week, there must be many hours cut back a day from sitting.

Many people today do not pay attention to the food they eat or how much exercise they get and in the end, that may change their lives. Though some people do not, you should because you may get a sedentary disease. There are multiple types of these diseases; three common ones are the Sitting Disease, High Blood Pressure, and finally Diabetes.

In today’s society almost every individual has some type of social media, whether it is Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, or Twitter, People have accustomed to utilizing these types of social media and it has become part of their life and daily use. According to the essay “Students Addicted to Social Media” by the International Center for Media and Public Agenda, the study from the University of Maryland claims “American college students today are addicted to media” (Signs of Life in the USA 403). The university discovered that when these students are restricted from using media it is similar in terms of drug and alcohol addictions. During the study that the university conducted, students discuss how boring it is without media and how it gives them anxiety about not receiving information through social media. Other students claimed that texting and IM'ing gives them comfort and if they do not have these items then they feel alone and isolated from the world ( Signs of Life in the USA 404). Students are not the only ones who have an addiction of media but also parents and non-students. However, the International Center is accurate in some aspects and the responses students gave are very relatable which some people can agree with.

Planned purchases involve time-consuming information-searching with rational decision making, whereas unplanned buying refers to all shopping decisions made without any advance planning. Impulse buying is distinguished from the unplanned buying in terms of quick decision making. In addition to being unplanned, an impulse purchase also involves experiencing a sudden, strong, and irresistible urge to buy The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed account of the impulse buying behavior influenced through external stimuli by compiling the various research works literature in the field of Retailing and Consumer Behavior. It gives a broad overview of the impulse buying construct and the various behavior related aspects. The