Tweet less to eat right
A study in the journal Cogent Social Sciences that examined the association between consumption of various types of social media and reports of disordered eating and compulsive exercising found that the use of mobile phone applications and microblogs were significantly associated with reports of disordered eating. Further, the use of mobile phone applications strongly correlated to compulsive exercise behaviours. However, the use of traditional blogs was not significantly associated with unhealthy eating or compulsive exercise. Young people who use these digital applications on their mobile devices are more likely than other individuals to engage in anorexia- or bulimia-related behaviours, as well as to reveal that they have to exercise in order to feel good about themselves, the researchers added.
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