Screen Time
You’ve just been staring at your screen for hours, scouring the internet for entertainment. Is it a healthy habit to do so? We all know it is not. According to Time Magazine, It's a bad sign if you are still looking at a screen by bedtime. But what is really the healthy amount of screen time for a person per day?
Screen time isn’t a bad thing, but too much can have detrimental effects on a person; and screen size matters too. For example, the CDC found that you do better on exams when you limit screen time to two hours or less. Also, you would have less fatigue looking at a computer or a large monitor compared to a phone, because the screens are much larger, and you tend to squint less when looking at a large screen.
However, during quarantine, if you are a kid like me who does remote learning or an adult working from home, it's hard not to clock in at around seven to eight hours a day. Therefore, we should take every chance to stand up, rest our eyes, get some fresh air, and leave our screens for 5 minutes as often as we can. Doing any of these could be extremely helpful. If you are finding fitness very difficult and your legs are getting heavy from the first sign of fitness, then you are sitting in front of your device for too long.
Many people are looking at their devices and relying on them too much. Humans have evolved to stand, run, and walk, not sit in a chair for countless hours every day. Let’s remind ourselves that devices were created to help us, not create a barrier between you and the world. I think we should all take a couple of steps to reduce our screen time.
Screen time isn’t a bad thing, but too much can have detrimental effects on a person; and screen size matters too. For example, the CDC found that you do better on exams when you limit screen time to two hours or less. Also, you would have less fatigue looking at a computer or a large monitor compared to a phone, because the screens are much larger, and you tend to squint less when looking at a large screen.
However, during quarantine, if you are a kid like me who does remote learning or an adult working from home, it's hard not to clock in at around seven to eight hours a day. Therefore, we should take every chance to stand up, rest our eyes, get some fresh air, and leave our screens for 5 minutes as often as we can. Doing any of these could be extremely helpful. If you are finding fitness very difficult and your legs are getting heavy from the first sign of fitness, then you are sitting in front of your device for too long.
Many people are looking at their devices and relying on them too much. Humans have evolved to stand, run, and walk, not sit in a chair for countless hours every day. Let’s remind ourselves that devices were created to help us, not create a barrier between you and the world. I think we should all take a couple of steps to reduce our screen time.
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