Americans consider the problem of overweight children and teenagers to be a growing health concern, and cite a mixture of a less active lifestyle, more electronic diversion and less healthy diet as the causes, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
No TV, BlackBerry or electronic diversion of any kind an hour or so before bed, because they tend to be stimulating, not relaxing.
The thing to understand is that playing a "massively multiplayer" online game, or M.M.O., is a commitment -- both of money and time -- unlike any other electronic diversion.
Today, children have multiple options for electronic diversion.
"I think that we'll continue to have electronic diversion, but I think that we can offset that loss".
In releasing results for the quarter ended June 30, the service described how "electronic diversion continues to cause reductions in first-class mail".
With the Internet, the Postal Service has been experiencing what it calls "electronic diversion" with people moving online for correspondence and other activities.
Now, according to Kazuto Yamaguchi, an editor at Kodansha, Japan's largest publisher, "even the people who used to read manga are switching to electronic diversions".
Their parents fail to entice them with books and seem to own as many electronic diversions as the average Amish household.
A kind of frozen fear hit me when I questioned how I could possibly work on my book with all the demonic electronic diversions threatening to sweep me into my "real" life of work and family.
