Social Media Affects Physical Health Impact Of Social Media On Academic Performance And Interpersonal Relation A Cross Sectional Study Among Students At A Tertiary Medical Center In East India Lahiry S Choudhury S Chatterjee S Hazra A

There are also people who are attached to trolling or arguing about everything from politics to sports.

My health the vet. This encourages diseases like anorexia and bulimia. Social media use has skyrocketed thanks in great part to the growth of smartphone technology. Obviously social media and technology arent all bad.

There is a lot of negativity out there and it can impact your health and fitness. Teenagers face an enormous amount of pressure to look a certain way act a certain way and be a certain way. In the third and final installment in the series about how social media use affects our mental social and physical health well look at the physical effects of using social media in our hyper connected yet strangely dis connected world.

One facet of our lives that has been especially influenced by social media is our health and fitness. They can bring connectivity ease information and excitement into our lives. From pictures of perfect physiques to the latest detox craze theres hardly a shortage of information on how to improve ourselves explains roger e.

We look at the evidence. Reduce time online a 2018 university of pennsylvania study found that reducing social media use to 30 minutes a day resulted in a significant reduction in levels of anxiety depression loneliness sleep problems and fomo. Modifying social media use to improve mental health step 1.

The health effects of social media range from funny small potatoes stuff like fomo to much more frightening possibilities like altered brain structures. Negative effects of social media on physical and mental health comparing ourselves with others is unhealthy spending a lot of time looking at others highlights online naturally leads to thinking of ourselves as better or worse off which links to jealousy and more severe depressive symptoms. Social media can directly impact physical health.

The media glorifies tiny waists and thigh gaps. Numerous studies have suggested that using social media sites such as facebook and twitter can affect mental health and well being. According to various studies the prolonged use of social media is linked with the symptoms of depression anxiety and low self esteem in teenagers and adolescents.

Social media creates the ideal body style and life that everyone should have. Social media is loaded with images that aim to influence from the vain glorious seflies of beautiful women on. Impact on physical health.

If interacting on social media causes stress its not good for your health.