Man has become very dependant on technology. Without it everyday living would be difficult. Life would be peaceful if we didn’t have machines running people’s lives. Dependence on technology is detrimental to humanity, and will eventually lead to many dilemmas in the future.
In this generation, mankind has become extremely reliant on technology. There isn’t a day that goes by that people don’t talk on their cell phones, drive a car, or utilize some type of machine. Technology has completely overtaken people’s lives and they don’t even realize it. Everyday use of automobiles, television, and cellular devices, has left humans with unhealthy bodies, and has put them at risk for serious health issues. This is all due to scarce physical activity, and the mass production of unnatural food sources.
Humans used to work to get a meal each day, if they wanted cookies, “[they] would have to fire up a wood stove and make the dough from scratch. Nowadays they, “jump into [a] car and head for the nearest convenience store – [and] if that’s too much effort, [they] pick up a phone or log on to the Internet and have the [items] delivered to [their] door.”(Lemonick 58-69) Technology hasn’t only taken away humans will power to make their own food, it also consistently advertises the unhealthy food to them. This raised up the obesity rate much higher. Everyone watches television so people have seen how, “technology has allowed advertisers to deliver constant, virtually irresistible messages that say - Eat this now- to everyone old enough to watch tv.” The mass production of these unhealthy foods, that are advertised to people, is cheap and convenient for the producers. People’s health will continue to decline due to the nonstop use of machi...
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The author underlines that humans turn to technology to help solve our problems. Freeman shows that technology is linked in for a cause in obesity. When using technology people usually sit and are not moving. A solution to technology is to turn our backs to technology.
In the documentary Killer at Large, former Surgeon General Richard Carmona remarked that “Obesity is a terror within. It’s destroying our society from within and unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9/11 or any other terrorist event that you can point out…” Carmona is indeed right, with the rapid increase of obese children, America is on the fast track to producing a generation with a life expectancy shorter than their peers. One of the main factor is the media representation of obesity (Greenstreet 2008). In today’s society parents are not only worrying about televisions influence on their kid’s behavior but their weight and health, too. According to study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, that researched the role of media in childhood obesity, stated the obesity increased by 2% for every hours of television in adolescent’s ages 12 to 17. The advertisement of food and beverages present a very strong influence on the children. Most of the products being advert...
The world is changing with the advancement of technology. People in our society, including teenagers, adults, and elders addicted to computers, television, cell phones, videogames, and cars. This addiction is making them sedentary. Going back in history, the human body is made for hunting, farming, and household work but the advancement of technology is making us sedentary. The sedentary lifestyle is leading increase in chronic health conditions and higher all-cause mortality. Human body is reacting to this change in nature, by being less immune to numerous chronic health conditions.
In Ellen DeGeneres' article ,"This is How We Live", describes all the examples of ridiculous innovations of technology, omitting how technology does help mankind, saying that technology is negative for mankind, and basically eliminating all the positive that technology has to offer. © ) . She believes that technology is hurting the people of America because requires hardly any physical activity and it tortures us. For example, when she says, " We just push a button and stand there. Take the car window. Someone decided that having to crank the window down yourself was too hard. I don't want to churn butter, I just want fresh air ' So we got a button to do it." (DeGeneres 588) She also believes that this technology is making Americans so lazy. "We're just so lazy. We used to have breath mints. Now we have breath strips that just dissolve on our tongue. Can we not suck anymore?" (Degeneres 589) Ellen decides to criticize all the new innovations because it is ridiculous that technology must be put in food so that we do not have to have any tongue action in sucking a breath mint.
The invasion of technology has long been assumed to contribute to the large number of Americans who are considered overweight and do not get an adequate amount of daily physical activity. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States has experienced a dramatic increase in the number of Americans who can be classified as obese. More than one-third of adults in the United States and approximately 17% of children and adolescents aged 2-19 years are considered obese ("Obesity and Overweight," 2012). However, the number of unhealthy Americans is not the only thing rising.
We make personal choices about what and where to eat. The government is not going to eliminate the unhealthy food because we think it is the cause of obesity. Ultimately, we must decide to either stay away from unhealthy food or eat them in moderation. Despite all the efforts of education, media and guidance it doesn’t prevent us from grabbing that cheeseburger with fries on the way to work. In his essay “What You Eat Is Your Business,” Radley Balko argues that society should take full responsi...
Many people in America, from toddlers to the elderly, have shown numerous signs of bad health. People have the desire to keep on eating due to more, new things being merchandised as “new and improved items” from the producers. For example, nowadays, people are eating pure junk that they find satisfying on the grocery food shelf. As, stated by Michael Pollan, in his article, “Eat Food: Food Defined” he affirmed that “real food is the type of things that our
...this dependent and addicted to technology can be very bad for us due to how clueless and lost we would be if it all stopped working or if it disappeared. We need to understand the difference between what’s truly helping us and what’s really hurting us in the long run when it comes to technology.
Technology is unavoidable in our modern lifestyle. You wake up, you use technology; you use technology while cooking, while eating, while driving. While you’re lying in bed before you fall asleep, you use technology, technology wakes you up in the morning. Is all the technology around you good for you, or is it harmful to your health? Was our society healthier or safer before all the advancements? So many questions and concerns about all of the technology we crave, but there are very few people who know the answers. Technology affects all parts of human life. It can create jobs, motivate people to get active, and assist people in learning, but this does not balance out that there are dangers that follow the use of technology.
Society has become too dependent on technology; could you go a day without your cell phone? Technology has led to genetic mutation, what’s next? Our daily lives are biased completely around technology. Technology needs to be reduced as much as possible it is contrary to god, humans, nature, and technology itself. With the uproar of technology in the past decade professors have dumbed down the courses because students aren’t able to process information like they used to. Students aren’t capable of imagining things themselves or coming up with their own ideas. How would schools function without technology? It’d be a lot harder for me to do this research paper without the internet to look up and print out my sources, I’d go nuts. Humans are using technology to fix the imperfections in themselves with surgeries such as; breast implants, rhinoplasty, lip injections, etc.
With technology becoming a bigger factor in everyday life, diseases and other health issues that used to be less prevalent are now becoming epidemics (Rowan). For example, obesity, which is a condition in which a person is very fat or overweight. Obesity is caused by not getting a proper diet and exercise. Technology is causing this to become an epidemic in children, because children need at least sixty minutes of physical exercise a day and when they are watching TV, on the computer, or playing video games, they are not physically active (Loop). Also, when children are less active and on electronics, they are more likely to eat food that is not healthy for them, such as high calorie junk foods (Martin).
Technology, which is developing rapidly on a daily basis, is aimed to ease people's lives by providing passive shortcuts, causing them to become lazy4. This action results in shortage of movement and exercise. Therefore, technology causes obesity indirectly5.
Technology is making our life easier than before, but are we getting too much dependent on it? Technology is getting improved by past decades. It has become a part and parcel in everyday life. Without it, people would have a lot of trouble to keep pace with the whole world. At the same time, todays new generations incredibly dependent on it. They do not want to use their brain as there are lots of search engines they can easily access and can find out what they want. Technology creates problems about pollution and global warming and at the same time people are using technology to reduce these problems. Overdependence on technology is harmful for humans’ existence because it creates addiction that makes people inactive, decrease job opportunities and causes physical or mental disorders that is a great threat for mans’ life.
Society has been impacted both negatively and positively by technology. As a result, every aspect of our lives has been influenced by technology. Hence, life is easier, yet it has taken away some of the enjoyment. For example, remember the days of less stress and more personal interaction, when there were no online messages, no emails, social media or cell phones. We have become excessively dependent on technology. As a result, we need to rely less on technology even though it has made learning fun, and business, daily tasks, work, travel, shopping, making new friends and staying in touch easier. In conclusion, technology has a lot of benefits, yet it could take over our lives and become our worst enemy if we aren't careful.
Without technology we wouldn’t have gotten this far, we wouldn’t have a simple and convenient life or even met new people from around the world. Technology is what everyone needs for a better life, but in order for it to benefit, we need to use it in the correct manner and not exploit it.