Nearly All US Teens Short On Sleep, Exercise (usnews.com) 116
UPI reports: Too little sleep. Not enough exercise. Far too much "screen time." That is the unhealthy lifestyle of nearly all U.S. high school students, new research finds. The study, of almost 60,000 teenagers nationwide, found that only 5 percent were meeting experts' recommendations on three critical health habits: sleep; exercise; and time spent gazing at digital media and television... "Five percent is a really low proportion," said study leader Gregory Knell, a research fellow at University of Texas School of Public Health, in Dallas. "We were a bit surprised by that...."
"If kids are viewing a screen at night -- staring at that blue light -- that may affect their ability to sleep," Knell said. "And if you're not getting enough sleep at night, you're going to be more tired during the day," he added, "and you're not going to be as physically active."
Experts recommend a minimum of 8 hours of sleep at night for teenagers, plus at least one hour every day of "moderate to vigorous" exercise.
One professor of adolescent medicine points out that some high school homework now even requires using a computer -- even though too much screen time can affect teenagers' abiity to sleep.
"If kids are viewing a screen at night -- staring at that blue light -- that may affect their ability to sleep," Knell said. "And if you're not getting enough sleep at night, you're going to be more tired during the day," he added, "and you're not going to be as physically active."
Experts recommend a minimum of 8 hours of sleep at night for teenagers, plus at least one hour every day of "moderate to vigorous" exercise.
One professor of adolescent medicine points out that some high school homework now even requires using a computer -- even though too much screen time can affect teenagers' abiity to sleep.
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They're not raising themselves, they have the Great Firewall to raise them.
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Re: And that's only part of the story. (Score:1)
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I asked myself, what grammatical correction could be made to that sentence so that it parses as English, and I came up at least 4 or 5 different potential things you could have meant, depending which of the many mistakes I correct, and in which direction.
Re:And that's only part of the story. (Score:4, Interesting)
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To live like the Joneses, you need two incomes in 2019, and American employers demand 50+ hour work weeks. I mean, you can get around this bullshit by having one income and living in a duplex, driving used cars, not buying electronics every year,
There's only one income in our house, and it's not a duplex. Granted, I have a decent income. But I refuse to by new cars, and my wife and I use older phones. I have a Samsung S5 and my wife is using my daughter's iPhone 5s. I hate upgrading phones because I don't like figuring where everything is and the new icons, etc. The S5 has a removable battery, SD slot and does everything I need. My wife was happier with her old Windows phone. I think my daughter conned her into taking her old phone so she could get
That's By Design (Score:4, Interesting)
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Because it's a capitalist shithole.
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I'll stay in my European socialist paradise. I might not make as much money, but at least I can see myself living here in another 50 years.
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Of course they care what happens to your eyesight. If you can't see (or are dead), why would you buy anything with a screen once you've actually earned enough disposable income to buy the nice stuff?
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Do you really think that corporations that wreck your privacy at every turn, even invent an "internet of extremely insecure things" for this very purpose, care whether you get diabetes
Of course they do - that whole class of prescription medications is highly profitable.
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Schools don’t care. Schools care about payroll.
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Re:Kohath the deplorable anti-education retard sez (Score:4, Insightful)
Slashdot is so toxic
It's a reflection of the rest of society. Cultural leaders celebrate and reward hate because they're terrible people. Followers respond because they are followers. It's not headed for a peaceful ending. They still have time to change course and give up on being haters. They know it's making their lives worse for no benefit to anyone.
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Well, that seems obvious, but the SJW mob doesn't seem like it's going to change anytime soon. Whole categories of inquiry about race, gender, sexuality, religion, ability, and identity can only go so far before the enquirer exercises prudent self-censorship or is shut down as racist, sexist, or x-phobic.
These lines of inquiry are judged so out of bounds that they donâ(TM)t require a response based on evidence or argument. Rather it is sufficient to identify them as falling into a particular category
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Yeah, I used to hate it when rightists used the same methods. The surest sign of the bully is that they will categorize at a glance: don't fit the glance, and the "not one of us" gene kicks in, and the derogatory nicknames come flowing out. It seemed the leftists have learned how effective that technique is. And that disappoints me to no end.
"We have met the enemy, and they is us".
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I'd say parents don't care. Schools don't get any money
This just means you live in a "red state."
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Schools care enough about their payroll to do everything they can to trap kids who want to learn in a system that prevents them from learning.
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Recent example: FEA endorsed [feaweb.org] the candidate who vowed to take away opportunities for students to learn without FEA on the payroll [orlandosentinel.com].
It turned out to be a very close election. Votes from parents who wanted to choose their kid's school instead of being trapped in the government system may have been enough for the winning margin.
That's just a recent example.
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Oh, you're talking about school vouchers. Yeah, I think they suck and they lead to uneven and unfair outcomes for poor and minority students. All students should have to go to public schools. Only then do students all get equivalent quality educations.
Children in poor neighborhoods get a bad education on average. Everyone knows. You're not fooling anyone.
The real question is why you want to keep them down. Either because you don't think they deserve a chance, or you don't care, or you have some personal or ideological stake in the system that condemns their lives.
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Studies show that when funds are diverted to charter schools, the public schools get less funding. And invariably, it's the poor kids who remain in public schools, because their families can't pay for the difference between the tuition for charter schools and the vouchers being given out.
"School choice" = public funds helping to subsidize private educations
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"School choice" = public funds helping to subsidize private educations for wealthy kids = taking money away from public schools
School choice is for kids learning. Money for public schools is for payroll and pensions and administration and unions — maybe a kid learns something in the process, maybe not — dividing up and pocketing the money is what truly matters to them.
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All students should have to go to public schools. Only then do students all get equivalent quality educations.
This is communism in a nutshell. Bring everyone down to the lowest level! Always willing to sacrifice progress at the altar of equality.
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People like you lie and call any attempt at giving poor people a decent standard of living "Communism". Fuck you.
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No, I'm interesting in raising everybody UP to the lowest level.
I ... uhh ... what?
Where exactly are you going to raise them from? The lower-than-lowest level?
In the US, the rich don't give two shits about the poor, and that's wrong. The US has become a culture of, "I've got mine. Fuck you".
That's not even remotely true but, even if it were, I see no reason why we should let fuckwads like you make people even poorer. Commies are great at talking a big game about how they'll take care of the poor, but as soon as you take over, fucking EVERYONE becomes poor.
That's the trick isn't it? You love the poor so much that you want to make more of them!
Education should not come down to money. That's immoral, and it's stupid from a society aspect.
It's wrong and immoral to stop people from using their m
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2. I never said people couldn't pay for schools. If people want to, they should. They should do it without public money, though.
3. Wait... and you use "Goebbels", too? Are you calling me a "Commie" or a "Nazi"? Do you even know the difference, or are you just some Trump-loving uneducated hick who doesn't know what words mean?
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You said - and I quote - "All students should have to go to public schools". Now you're contradicting that statement. Either you're too stupid to say what you mean in the first place, or you're too dishonest to admit to your real position after being called out on it. Either way you certainly have nothing of value to say.
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Always willing to sacrifice progress at the altar of equality.
They aren't sacrificing "progress", they are sacrificing children.
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Hm. That doesn't seem like communism to me. There are echoes of communistic ideas there, but no. This ensures equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.
I am not saying I am "for" this idea. I am merely discussing whether or not it has communistic qualities.
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I make sure my kids get to bed on time. I don't care about screen time or exercise.
Either medical science will come up with a cure for it, or we will suffer whatever actual consequences arise, if any, but ruining my life just to be healthy is not a trade-off I will make, and I will not force it on my children.
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If you're from West Derpistan, where the voters refuse to fund their own damn schools because "taxes hurt my freedum bone," then it might be true.
Where I live, politicians and voters worry about the school budget, and schools worry about education.
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You can argue the morality and who decides among yourselves. The fact here is quite obvious and has been widely public for almost as long as there's been public education. "Give me control of the schools and I'll give you any kind of citizen you desire".
Education is a widely misused word these days. As well as a lot of others. That's no accident.
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Where you live politicians spend on schools and spend more on schools then spend even more on schools and they just keep getting worse. Where I'm from we ask Mary and Johnny to pay their own kids schooling and use the money however they fuck they want without leeching off of the rest of society like fucking parasites.
You want kids? Great, have as many as you like. Not my fucking job raising them for you. Educate your own kids and fuck off.
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Liar liar, pants on fire!
We vote on all new taxes here.
Schools fund infrastructure investment based on local voters approving bond measures that are repaid from local property taxes.
You red state morons only hate the Ebil Gubermint because you suck at civics and don't learn how to vote on specific issues that you claim you care about; if you did care, then you'd already be in control of those issues locally. Like we are in blue states.
Politicians don't spend shit. Professional administrators come to the P
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My experience with my kids is that schools, teachers, administrators really do care about kids, but (a) there's a lot of kids to care about, (b) there's a lot of pressure to prepare kids for high stakes testing, and (c) they're swamped with kids whose families have big time drama like domestic violence and drug abuse.
I once had to call in a lawyer who specialized in educational law to issue some threats to the local school administrators. They weren't ill-intentioned people, they just let a certain situati
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You can't expect administrators and teachers to be saints; they're ordinary people
According to the summary, even a professor of adolescent medicine might confuse an activity that is often done at night in preference to sleep with an activity that might instead affect a person's ability to sleep.
It's regular people, all the way down. Or up.
"Why We Sleep" by Matthew P. Walker (Score:2)
https://www.goodreads.com/book... [goodreads.com]
"The first sleep book by a leading scientific expertâ"Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeleyâ(TM)s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab -- reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.
Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we slee
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My experience from attending school is that they don't. Maybe I mistook them being completely useless and interested only in money for not them caring because those things are functionally exactly the same.
Extra-cirricular (Score:2)
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Oh boy, where to start (Score:2, Insightful)
And then there's inflation. Raises stopped keeping pace with inflation in the 70s and stopped entirely in the mid 2000s. So even if you do have a stead job you're gonna have to leave it every 3-5 years to look for better paying work. Companies don't promote or train because they can just get an H1-B if they can't find somebody
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Used cars only break if you buy the wrong car. Simple mid-90s to 2010 Japanese econoboxes tend to be more reliable than the bloated, overweight, techboxes of today, loaded with electronic shitware that can't be fixed by anyone without special tools and software. Old Camry or Accord is better than almost anything sold today.
As far as Medicaid/insurance, don't move to a state run by conservative twatwaffles. The literal goal should be to live in a duplex, have someone else paying your mortgage, send your k
I've got a mid 90s Japanese car (Score:2)
If you're buying something as new as 2010 that doesn't have crazy miles on it expect to pay $8-$10k unless a relative gives it to you cheap. No, I'm not exaggerating, that's from a quick check of my local area. The used car market has gone nuts. Doesn't help that an entry level 4 door sed
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Sounds like the car isn't maintained properly/well or you got a lemon. Things like mid-2000s Civic sedans can be had for under $4000 here in good shape, especially if you can drive a real transmission (manual)...
You get a TENANT (aka ATM on the hoof) to pay your mortgage. Duplexes in less posh areas often cost the same (or less) than houses in nicer areas. Live in the 2nd floor apartment, rent out the first floor.
If I end up in the situation you speak of, I'd probably just sell everything I own and move
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The GOP put poison pills in the ACA.
Stopped reading there. The GOP did not contribute or vote for the ACA in any way shape or form. You fuck wits on the left own that pile of shit 100% in every way shape or form. Not one GOP official contributed or was even included in the drafting. That is all you. Own that shit and fuck off.
It was their plan, (Score:2)
It's almost as if corporatism is the problem, and not the party. Show up to your bloody primary election and vote the bastards out and we can easily fix this. As it stands the ACA was the be
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Well, ...
in other countries the kids use public transport
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Well,
public transport works in different countries different.
In the Paris area 1 hour metro probably gets me 100km far ... or close to it.
At my fathers place it took me several buses and about 2h for 45km ... because the buses detoured a lot to pick up more people from remote small villages.
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In Paris it is actually super cheap. 1.30 Euro for a ride.
In my town it is twice as much.
Bangkok is super cheap, too. But it depends what you use, it is about 50cents on a boat, and same for bus, but 80 or 90 for sky train ... the Bangkok version of the Paris metro or London subway.
Ah, I understand the design problem ... pretty stupid.
deflect much? (Score:1)
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Life. You're doing it wrong.
No good for the US mil (Score:2)
So much to carry, have to be smart.
The water, communications, mil equipment, battery, food. Adds up to weight over long distances at elevation.
Its not much use to try and make someone that fit and smart over a year in the mil.
Decades of trying to teach IQ and fitness did not work.
Thats needs years of fitness and endurance to be ready for the advanced mil projects.
T
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Really want that level of smarts and fitness for elite units?
Moving the needed pass or fail on fitness to an exercise that's not counted?
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Now that you mention it, the drugs were indeed better.
Would be nice to link the study. (Score:2)
A pertinent topic. Would be nice to have an actual scientific article with methodology and the other trappings of science attached.
Paper (Score:2)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/r... [sciencedaily.com]
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It's realistic and it's healthy. Adults need 7-9 hours of sleep, teens even more and kids even more than that. It's also noteworthy that humans are not fungible and tend to have different needs. Personally, I have no problem working after midnight but considerable problems working before noon. A coworker of mine is the polar opposite of that. We complement each other pretty well.
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Golly, if these machines are capable of thinking, why not just instruct the machines to turn off at night?
Lets see your chalk slate manage that.