Can a Healthy Lifestyle be Controlled by Your Smartphone?

It seems millennials are stereotypically always connected via some sort of device. Often referred to as the “C Generation” or “Connected Generation” according to an article on Forbes by Andrew Arnold. With the title of being a connected generation, millennials also get the title of being the most stressed generation and with stress comes the possibility of sickness. No one like being sick and no one likes going to the doctor and according to Arnold, millennials just don’t go even if they do get sick. Allow me to explain.

Some stats used in the article claim searching for a blog about living a healthy lifestyle will bring up over 4 million results. Obviously, there is a community developing online filled with questions and answers in a variety of different areas. There isn’t always going to be truth to every answer on the internet but for the most part, this community of millennials trusts each other. And said trust, according to Arnold, goes farther with millennials online than it does with manufacturers or institutions such as hospitals or other medical facilities.

With the ever-increasing trend of healthy living and being fit/active, there have been countless apps and programs accessible from our smartphones, tablets or laptops. This allows us to be connected and learn more than ever before able illness, fitness and an everyday lifestyle we can adapt to make us healthy and keep us in shape.

As millennials, Arnold says, we love our freedom and we love our technology so it’s the best of both worlds when we can use our technology to keep away from the doctors and better ourselves from home. But it’s not just technology we are addicted to. We also like everything to be “natural” and “organic” so natural remedies such as acupuncture, meditation, and physical exercise according to the article instead of pharmaceuticals.  

The concern for a healthy environment has shaped and changed how we live today. Whether you are a millennial or not, your world has most likely been changed to fit this tech crazed, health nut, natural society. It is crazy to see how far technology has come and what it has accomplished throughout the years in terms of health and ease of access to everything we need. It has also rendered medicine and manufactured pharmaceuticals as a bad thing as we return to older ways of using natural remedies. As technology increases, we return to simple basic strategies of healing from years ago and are now becoming all the rage.