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Sustainability for humans and the humane from a pediatric point of view
Victorin Å ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This is an opinion piece arguing that excessive technology use and screen time among children in industrialized countries is linked to mental health problems, sleep disruption, and physical inactivity. The author calls for adults to help children maintain natural rhythms and reduce technology dependence. No original data, systematic analysis, or evaluation of solutions is presented.
Key points
- Mental health problems among young people in industrialized countries are increasing
- Smartphone introduction in 2007 is associated with rises in anxiety, depression, and behavioral problems
- Excessive screen time leads to sedentary behavior, insufficient physical activity, and obesity
- The author promises solutions in an oral presentation but does not detail them in this abstract
Limitations
This is not a research study but an abstract announcing a presentation. It contains assertions without evidence, cites no data or sources, presents no methodology, and does not evaluate any intervention or provide original findings.
Abstract
Introduction We need to live in harmony with our lifestyle rhythms to stay healthy. A problem in our time is that technical devices have no respect for rhythm.If we get caught up in the technique and start neglecting our natural body needs such as sleep, eat and exercise – it will affect our health negatively. Today, children have increasing problems with mental health. When analyzing the problem we find rhythmical problems, often associated to technology. Being a parent in our time is hard. Time has come for us to take active care of our natural rhythms, to stay healthy. Objectives Increasing mental health problems among the young is a global issue in the industrialized world. We see a connection between digitization, the intro of smartphones 2007 and the increase of anxiety, depression and melt downs in children who are left with to little adult guidance. Their screen time becomes to long leading to impaired health due to long sedentary time. The result is not enough physical activity, obesity, introversy because of lack of IRL social contact etc. The problems are well known but why don´t we talk more about them and help our children to deal with it? Methods Read any statistics about mental helath among the young in the industrialized countries. Results While studying the statistics in Sweden over time the results of the bad sustainability of living are clear. Conclusions The adult world needs a wake up call which I will give in my oral presentation. I will also present proposals of solution. Disclosure No significant relationships.