Facebook could make you bloat - Los Andes (Argentina)

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

It is not that Facebook has m?s number of users is that people spend so much time connected to this social network that ends up leaving or decrease the time in the gym or sports. Same thing happens with Twitter . Thus surfers to Sun and shade end up increasing their weight.

Experts at the University of North Ireland ?lster discussed the conduct of 350 students. J?venes that said c?mo were its online activities. The question is desprendi? the mayor?a spent at least one hour to the connected d?a.

The answers were as?: one-third of the participants said they were "highly active", and 12.7 per cent reported a "low f?sica activity". Of all the respondents a 25 per hundred asegur? to hac?a sports group.

But there are always buts, experts discovered that Facebook and Twitter reduc?an while students used to do sports. I.e., many preferred to spend part of their time in the virtual world and leave the real. Adem?s the fan?ticos of social networks were less likely to group sports.

"Time is a finite resource, as? the time passed on social networks have to reduce other activities." "Our study suggests that the activity f?sica podr?a be one of these activities", detall? in a press release from the University of ?lster the author l?der of the study, Dr. Wendy Cousins, psic?loga of the University.
And aclar? that "our findings are interesting, but we have not demonstrated conclusively that social networks cause low m?s of f?sica activity levels." "We must carry out m?s investigaci?n to see if it is really that Facebook fattening rather than Twitter thins".