Teens with sedentary lifestyle and its effects on their health and social life

Introduction

Physical inactivity or having a sedentary lifestyle is being identified as the fourth common risk factor leading to mortality causing an estimated 3.2 million deaths globally and due to technological advancements. The statement of the problem is sedentary lifestyle of teens nowadays would eventually lead them to having certain health and social problems because nowadays teens in this century are now more focused on games on their gadgets and socialize on the internet instead of going out. With that said this leads to teens having less exercise than usual thus having a sedentary lifestyle which also contributes to social isolation where one prefers to be alone and not interact with others that said alone will affect ones social life which lead to bigger cases such as health problems physically whereas it may lead to obesity and socially where as it may lead to shyness and insecurity that will limit one’s social life. “Fast foods are likely to contribute to over consumption. A sedentary lifestyle interacts with over consumption and minimal exercise which produces obesity.” (http://ajcn.nutrition.org/)

This research focuses on teens that are considered to have sedentary lifestyles in which the researchers will be asking questions about its effects also the researchers are looking on the effects to teens with sedentary lifestyles whereas the researchers will look into the possible health complication that is brought to an individual due to sedentary lifestyle. In which the main purpose of the research is to identify the factors of having a sedentary lifestyle and the consequences it will bear to those who have it.

Specifically, this research seeks to answer the physical and social problems of having a sedentary lifesty...

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...s to teens thus proper awareness about the said lifestyle should be given attention. Firstly, teenagers themselves must be responsible in keeping their body healthy by being physically active and avoiding too much screen time. With this, developing their social skills decreases their risks in having problems like being depressed or insecure because chemical changes that take place in the brain in response to the physical activities. Secondly, parents play a big role in contributing to their children’s health because it is said that children mimic their parents and if the parents are obese, the children are most likely to be obese. As a parent, they should be the example. They should start engaging in physical activities if they want to encourage their children to do the same thing.

Reference

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/83/2/189.full

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