Health Benefits Of Modern Culture

Whether modern culture is ruining children or benefiting is a topic that has under debate a lot in recent years since critics have started questioning on its health and psychological impacts on children. These questions will inevitably force us to decide whether the good effects of modern culture are significant enough to overshadow the bad. Undoubtedly, they are not, since using electronic devices at young age erodes brain development as well as many other health issues. Some people might say that Modern Culture is flourishing childhood as it develops many skills, increases social benefits, and provides endless opportunities to learn; nevertheless, the modern culture is held accountable having a negative impact on the children, since it erodes brain development, leads to obesity, and encourage harmful trends/challenges.

To begin with, it is argued by many that modern culture provides endless opportunities to learn and enhance skills and knowledge. …show more content…
Modern Culture has encouraged harmful and dangerous trends like ideal personality types, social unrealistic body goals, and anxiety. Patrick Hess from huff post says that teens of both genders spend hours a week taking selfies to post to their social media to enlist responses and comments from their followers and friends, and while it screams vanity, it really is just an extension of the offline clothes, makeup or accessories kids spend money on to be visually acceptable. (Hess, 2014). According to a recent report from the UK’s Royal Society for Public Health, 91 per cent of young people using social media on a regular basis, the report highlights the addictive nature of such technologies, describing it as more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol. (Boran, 2017) . Another area of concern is medication children with harmful psychotropic drugs, and the increased amount of toxic chemical that children in contact are