Thanks to new smartphone apps and other developing new technology, anyone can now monitor their heart rate, track diet, and exercise routine, and keep an eye on their blood sugar levels without complicated or expensive equipment. Going forward, experts predict that smartphone health apps will “reduce our use of doctors, cut costs, speed up the pace of care and give more power to patients
Key Takeaways:
- There are now more mobile devices on the planet than human beings, and technophobes are convinced these beeping rectangles of doom are on a mission to make you fat, lonely and depressed.
- Men perform 90 minutes of phone-poking per day and many scientists are convinced this is bad for your body.
- exposure to screen light unbalances the sleep hormone melatonin and the hunger hormones ghrelin and leptin, leading you to feel zombified and crave calorific succour.
Nobody is suggesting you hammer your phone all day. The message is to use it to create a positive environment. Delete Instagram downers and sign up for updates from motivational businesspeople and fitness experts. Quit Candy Crush and switch to Lumosity, which trains your brain to keep you smarter and sharper. And sidestep newsfeeds of global misery for the guided meditation practices of Headspace.
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