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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health and Lifestyle report.
Most children have heard their parents at one time or another yell "sit up straight!" or "don't slouch!"
In the past, this was usually heard at the dinner table as children ate dinner. But these days, it is also heard around another activity – video games.
Ten-year old Owaish Batliwala, from Mumbai, India, admits he spends three to four hours each day playing games on his tablet computer. His mother Mehzabin became concerned when her son started saying that his neck hurt.
She said, "My son started having neck problems around June or July. The pain slowly spread to his hand and his back. He plays for hours on the iPad and mobile phone. This is what has caused the problem."
Sadia Vanjara is a physical therapist. She says the number of young children with chronic pain in their necks, arms and shoulders is on the rise. Dr. Vanjara says the pain is not from aging, accidents or disease. It is from poor posture, or body position, while playing video games.
"They are not aging, they haven't had an accident, their age is like, under 10, they are not complaining, the blood reports are fine, their x-rays are fine, their MRI's are fine, then where is the culprit? And that is the very common thing that is happening amongst all children and that is smart phones and the gadgets."
This is a problem in many parts of the world. But there are more smartphone users in India than anywhere else in the world, except China. Networking equipment company Cisco estimates that the number of smartphone users in India will increase from 140 million today to 651 million by 2020.
19-year old student Nida Jameel says she feels pain in the finger which holds the weight of her smartphone most of the day.
She says she uses her smartphone 24/7. This means 24 hours a day, seven days a week, or all the time.
"As I use phone 24/7 (all day) like, so probably yeah, it was because of the phone, continuous usage and Snapchat, Whatsapp, more and more you know social media coming, so like phone is the center of everything."
Dr. Vanjara says the best treatments for the pain are daily exercises.
"And start stretching it in all the possible directions that you can."
Correct posture can help prevent pain. Dr. Vanjara teaches children how to hold their gadgets correctly. She tells a patient to hold the gadget in front of the face. She says that bending the head down to look at the device, strains the neck and creates an unhealthy bend to the back.
Sadia Vanjara predicts we will see not only physical but psychological and emotional problems resulting from overuse of gadgets.
Experts advise taking breaks from using a computer or other device often. Stand up. Stretch your legs, back, shoulders and arms. And when your work or school work is done, unplug and exercise.
And that's the Health and Lifestyle report.
I'm Anna Matteo.
词汇解释
1.slouch n. 下垂；笨拙的人，懒散的人；懒散的样子 vi. 没精打采地站；耷拉 vt. 使下垂
Try not to slouch when you are sitting down.
你坐下时尽量不要无精打采。
2.therapist n. 临床医学家；治疗学家
My therapist helped me to deal with my anger.
我的治疗师帮我消除怒气。
3.unplug vt. 去掉…的障碍物；拔去…的塞子或插头
I had to unplug the phone.
我不得不拔掉电话线。
内容解析
1.She says that bending the head down to look at the device, strains the neck and creates an unhealthy bend to the back.
bend down 蹲下，弯腰；(使)弯曲；
She used to bend the corners of the pages down.
她总是把页角折起来。
The tall man bent down to get through the doorway.
那高个男人弯身经过出入口。
参考译文
这里是美国之音健康和生活方式报道。
大多数孩子都听到过父母喊着“坐直”或“不要驼背”。
过去，这些话总是儿童在餐桌前吃饭时听到的，但现在，经常是在玩视频游戏时听到。
10岁的Owaish Batliwala来自印度孟买，他承认每天在平板电脑上玩3到4小时的游戏，当他开始说颈部疼痛时，他母亲Mehzabin开始担心了。
她说，“6、7月份我儿子开始出现颈部问题，疼痛慢慢蔓延到手部和后背，他在iPad和移动电话上玩几小时，这就是原因。”
Sadia Vanjara是一位理疗师，她说越来越多的孩子的颈部、胳膊和肩膀出现慢性疼痛，她说这种疼痛并非是年老、事故或疾病导致，而是因为姿势不对，也就是玩游戏时坐姿不对。
“他们没有衰老，也没有出事故，他们只是10岁以下的孩子，他们也没有抱怨，他们的血液报告很正常，X射线也正常，核磁共振检查正常，那么罪魁祸首是什么呢？这是所有儿童中很常见的问题，就是智能手机和设备。”
这个问题困扰了世界上很多地方，但印度是除中国之外智能手机使用者人数最多的国家，思科网络设备公司估计到2020年，印度的智能手机使用人数将从今天的1.4亿到6.51亿。
19岁的学生Nida Jameel说她感觉整天握着智能手机的手指疼痛。
她说她一天到晚都在玩手机，这意味着一天24小时，每周7天，也就是说没停过。
“因为我整天玩手机，所以因为手机、Snapchat、Whatsapp等越来越多的社交应用，所以手机就是一切的中心。”
Vanjara说治疗这种疼痛最好的办法就是每天锻炼。
“尽可能向所有的方向伸展。”
正确的姿势可以预防疼痛，Vanjara教孩子们如何正确地握设备，她告诉一名患者将设备举在脸前面，她说低头对着设备会让颈部紧张，导致背部形成不健康的弯曲。
Sadia Vanjara预测过度使用设备不仅可以导致身体问题，还会导致心理和情绪问题。
专家建议不时地暂停使用电脑或其他设备，站起来，伸伸腿、背部、肩膀和胳膊，一旦工作或学习完成，就拔掉电源开始锻炼。
这就是健康和生活方式报道。
我是安娜·马特奥。
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