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Is Technology Healthy?
Look around your kitchen. How many electrical appliances do you own? Today there are electrical appliances for nearly every type of food preparation: Garlic mashers, juicers, blenders. Do you really need so many appliances? Is it good for your health? Is it good for your body?
The world average life expectancy is age 67. In the United States, it is approximately age 78. Fast growth in medical technology, particularly in recent years, has expanded our life expectancy by a lot. Yet studies also show that technology can pose a threat to our health. Cell phones, computers, power lines and home appliances all expose the body to electromagnetic radiation. Although many health studies claim the harm of this exposure to be "inconclusive," it can't be all that great for us, can it?
At work, a capacitive sensor guides us. Our keyboards have character recognition. We are bathed in technology at work, while shopping, even as we dream at night. How can we use all this technology to our health's advantage?
Technology can reduce stress
We can consciously choose technology that reduces our stress level and improves our overall health. We can also make choices to avoid unnecessary technology, like the excess items that are just crowding our lives. There are choices we can make about the technology surrounding us, in order to improve our chances of living a long healthy life. Watch out for technology that causes you undue stress. An obvious stress-inducing item might be a cell phone with a jarring ring, but there are many more subtlety stressful affects of technology. Many of these affects you can control and improve. Change that ringer to one that won't make you jump, remove sound affects from your computer, etc.
Reduce cell phone use
Over one and a half billion people worldwide use cell phones. Although the cell phone industry maintains there is no scientific evidence of harmful electromagnetic radiation, scientists and health experts are skeptical. Some laboratory studies have shown that radio waves from cell phones do harm body cells and damage DNA, although a spokesperson from one such study said that these biological changes did not lead to disease. Even Dr Zenon Sienkiewicz of the National Radiological Protection Board said there is no reason for the public to be worried about using their cell phones. Still, many health experts recommend holding the cell phone far from the ear, or using a headpiece.
Assess your conditions
Choosing technology that does not put added stress on your body is vital in prolonging your life. Stress kills and causes disease. Looking around your home, ask yourself, is there anything here that is causing me stress. Look at your computer: Can you see the screen well, or are you squinting, causing stress to your eyes? Little improvements like upgrading to a better monitor can reduce hours of stress and add years to your life.
Look in your bedroom. Does your radio stand next to your headboard? Think about moving it across the room, which may reduce your risk of interfering radio waves. Is the alarm on your radio a harsh, jarring sound? Consider the stressful effect such an alarm will have. There may be another choice of alarm bell that does the job of waking you, but with a softer sound.
Technology can be wonderful, but if we lose our watchful eye of it, our bodies will suffer consequences.
About the Author
About the Author: Amy Brevard is a Freelance Writer working with Innuity. For more information about the capacitive sensor or character recognition . go to Cirque
11:43 pm on October 11th, 2010
My first knowledge of ‘gadget’ was from ‘The Gadget Man’ at the Agriculutral Show in Cairns where my father steered the family to watch the selling style of the showman, not underestimating his gadgetry. He was florid of face and spat voluminous amounts of frothed saliva and sputum across the microphone tied to him somehow I just don’t remember. Perspiration poured off him until his shirt hung wet against the money he stuffed into its front. My father’s prized possession was the narrow elongated beaker with a plunger that, just fitting the diameter of the beaker, was manipulated up and down rapidly to perfectly whip egg whites stiff. It was packed into my father’s suitcase when he went ‘to conference’ and he ‘made the boys breakfast’, those ‘boys’ being adult male sugar cane technologists who were treated to French Omelette breakfasts in divers barracks-accompanied by random (heavily Scots-accented) swearing and risque (bad) jokes.The washing machine was a two-tone exterior baked enamel jiver. When the wringer escaped its catch if the user did not secure it, the spindle gyrated a casing of rollers around and ’round, throwing the machine off kilter and it ‘danced’-it seemed-on its rollers until it rocked – in increasingly wider circles, (almost) roll-l-l-l-i-n.g. I inherited this machine when I had my first baby and saved her from its path when it lurched one day towards where she was playing. It was about that episode of time I bought a National blender that had a clever stainless steel attachment for especially grinding spices and coffee.