Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

So today I want to talk about smart phone addictions in teens and children.

Okay, it's a big problem.

There was a study done in 2016 involving 1,240 parents.

And they found that 50% of teens felt addicted, no surprise there.

59% of parents believe that their kids were addicted.

Okay, 77% of parents feel that their kids get distracted and lose attention.

That's no surprise. Of course, you're going to be distracted.

And so the 2% of teens felt that they needed to respond to text and social media immediately

when they get this like text message because texting you get like a 95% open rate.

So you have people that are just all day long just responding, responding, responding.

It's training you to respond versus email, which is I think it's only like 15 or 20%.

So it's definitely a problem because you're glued to the phone and you're literally addicted.

I only check text messages maybe twice a day,

same thing with the email because I found that I wasn't getting anything done at all

because I'm constantly distracted.

And when you think about multitasking, you think you're getting more stuff down, you're not.

Your power is in your attention.

So you really want to do what you're doing when you're doing it and not doing something else

by doing this thing over here.

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