Can Texting Make You Shopping More and Fat?

Shopping more after texting

Many researchers found that texting while doing activities such as walking or jogging may make people get fatter.

It is because texting make people reduce their steps, slow their movement, thus metabolism slow down, then calories burning less in our body.

Smart phone has similar and even might be better than certain portable computer in term of internet connections and applications.

We can use multiple functions of a smart phone such as sending e-mail, texting few words, making friendly call, searching information through internet, watching video, playing game and many more.

Illustration of a shopping cart

Programs provide watching live events around us, state wide or nationally. We also connecting to social medias include blogger, Facebook, twitter, Instagram and others.

These activities may categorized as “sedentary,” and disturbing exercises of running, jogging and walking just because to check messages, taking photos and sending photos to social medias.

The question then: Can Texting Make You Shopping More and Fat? The simple answer is yes! Why?

It is because texting and internet connecting cell phone prompt people to:

- Deviate from their shopping list.

- Tend to buy hedonistic products that unrelated to lists

- Tend to buy more, and tend to forget from original lists.

- Shopping malls send distract messages to buy their attractive products than your own list.

It is suggested that you executed your plan first, then you may use your mobile phone later on. What do you thinks?