‘App-orexia’: Can Smartphone Applications Be Bad for Your Health?

"I think that it's tying into the eating disorder mentality of making sure that you know everything that's going into your body, having those obsessive thoughts of calorie counting, keeping track of your weight, keeping track of what goes in and what goes out through exercise."
March 28, 2010 at 11:02 pm - GMA Weekend
Dateline: New York, NY
Veritas   March 29th, 2010 - 12:02 am

WTF happened to personal responsibility?? Why must we all know about everyone and how they live their lives? This crap on TV is not news and I don’t care! Our country is based on individual responsibility. If you want to eat yourself to death or not, that is your own damn business! I don’t need to know! Why do we obsess on what other people do. What happened to “Mind your own business”?

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J K   March 29th, 2010 - 1:44 am

What a sad commentary on American society.

What if we still spent this much time on the sciences, religious cultivation, or productivity?

Death Watch   March 29th, 2010 - 7:23 am

Christ !
Just when we were about to lay off some of our dedicated staff, it looks like we will have to start hiring thousands of new people to assist those already here.
Not only do we monitor the millions dying from over indulgence in Fast-food eateries, but now we will have to assess the numbers of people starving to death in the same restaurant.
Thank you very much indeed Graham Alexander Bell !

JC   March 29th, 2010 - 1:46 pm

I have one of these applications on my smart phone and I think it’s great. It really has helped me to become aware of how many calories I am consuming and the make up of those calories (fat, protein, carbohydrates). It also allows me to track my exercise so that I can see my total calorie usage during the day. I have had high cholesterol much of my life and this has helped me get the numbers more in line. Obsessive people, or anorexics might have a problem with it, but the app isn’t the problem, it’s the underlying obsession. For the rest of us it helps us to eat healthy if that’s what we want to do.

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