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Camp Cure for Web Obsession

24 Saturday Nov 2007

Posted by Prem Rao in Trends

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Internet, South Korea

This day had to come! South Korea actually has a boot camp to cure youngsters from web obsession says the New York Times.

South Korea boasts of being the most wired nation on earth. In fact, perhaps no other country has so fully embraced the Internet. 90 % of homes connect to cheap, high-speed broadband, online gaming is a professional sport, and social life for the young revolves around the “PC bang,” dim Internet parlors that sit on practically every street corner.

Compulsive Internet use has been identified as a mental health issue in other countries, including the United States. However, it may be a particularly acute problem in South Korea because of the country’s nearly universal Internet access.

It has become a national issue here in recent years, as users started dropping dead from exhaustion after playing online games for days on end. A growing number of students have skipped school to stay online, shockingly self-destructive behavior in this intensely competitive society.

Up to 30 percent of South Koreans under 18, or about 2.4 million people, are at risk of Internet addiction, said Ahn Dong-hyun, a child psychiatrist at Hanyang University in Seoul who just completed a three-year government-financed survey of the problem.

Apparently it is too early to say to what extent the camp has helped to wean youngsters away from the net. However, it seems to have made a good start. A youngster confessed that thanks to the camp he could cut his internet time to only 5 hours per day !!!

To me, this trend underscores the need to have a well-rounded personality with diverse interests.  Enjoying an activity is fine till you reach a stage when you cannot do without it. To one it is smoking, to another it is drinking, to another online gaming.

There is so much to gain from having a well-balanced approach to life. As the old nursery rhyme has it ” All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”.

I add” All play and no work makes Jack unemployed”

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Active Parents Raise Active Children

24 Saturday Nov 2007

Posted by Prem Rao in Executive Health

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If you tend to blame your kids for being couch potatoes, ask yourself how active you were during pregnancy ! Recent research from the University of Bristol covering more than 5000 kids of age 10 and 11 found that children whose mothers were more active during pregnancy were more active themselves. They say this is unlikely to be due to factors in the womb but is more likely that women who are active during pregnancy are more likely to be active post-pregnancy, and this in turn influences children’s physical activity.
As well as the link to more active children, the season in which children were born had an effect on how active they were.  The research also indicated that children born during summer to winter were more active than those born in spring.

If the results are anything to go by, it’s all the more reason executives in the course of pregnancy have appropriate amounts of physical activity – not only for their well being but also for that of their to-be-born children !

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