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<\/a>eone you know? If it’s not Pinterest, perhaps a video game, or social media. Do you ever notice others checking their phones at the gym?<\/span><\/p>\nTechnology is a blessed thing and equally can take over our lives and disconnect us from the people and pets around us.<\/span><\/p>\n A challenge for us: next time you find yourself spending copious amounts of time on\u00a0a\u00a0device,\u00a0finish the immediate post\/page\/message you are on, turn it to airplane mode and take at least a 5 minute break. A 5-10 minute break from your screen every hour is important for your brain to reset and reconnect with the environment around you.<\/span><\/p>\n And remember, living creatures have hearts. Computers do not.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n To your health,<\/span><\/p>\n Starr<\/span><\/p>\n About the Author:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Starr Wharton, M.S., MCHES is a wellness specialist with more than 16 years experience\u00a0in cardiovascular health and emergency medicine.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is this you? Or someone you know? If it’s not Pinterest, perhaps a video game, or social media. Do you ever notice others checking their phones at the gym? Technology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chipnaway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chipnaway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chipnaway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipnaway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipnaway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipnaway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipnaway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chipnaway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipnaway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipnaway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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