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Digital devices are
dominating our lives these days. Many, if not
of us are addicted to them. New studies emerge with alarming
about the dangers to our physical and mental health of being glued to our small
. Children are not exercising; people are worrying about their body
because of online pressure from "perfect body" sites; and people are being bullied (or
) by cyber-criminals. In a study of 1,000 adults in Japan,
discovered that nearly 50 per cent of the participants were addicted to their
, but were unaware of their smartphone
. The study is one of many clarion calls for "digital detox" to become part of our
.