睡前玩手机的危害，比我们想象的更严重！

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初中三年级

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健康与饮食

大多数人有睡前玩手机的习惯。但你知道吗？长期在睡前玩手机带来的危害可能比想象中更严重！

It’s time to put down your phone.

是时候放下你的手机了。

Researchers from the Buck Institute in California have found that eye damage(损害) caused by too much screen time can harm other important organs and even make you die earlier. Professor Pankaj Kapahi, Ph.D., and Brian Hodge, Ph.D. published their findings in the Nature Communications, telling us the severity(严重性) of eye damage.

加州巴克研究所的研究人员发现，过多的屏幕时间造成的眼睛损伤会伤害其他重要器官，甚至让你更早死亡。Pankaj Kapahi教授 (博士) 和Brian Hodge (博士) 在《自然通讯》上发表了他们的发现，告诉我们眼睛损伤的严重程度。

“Our study shows that this is a big problem: eye damage may actually lead to problems in other organs,” Kapahi said. He and Hodge studied the patterns of fruit flies and found that overexposure(过度接触) to light in the eyes can cause or worsen chronic disease(慢性病). Further research found that fruit flies that were completely in darkness lived longer than those that were not.

“我们的研究表明这是一个大问题: 眼睛损伤实际上可能导致其他器官的问题，” Kapahi说。他和霍奇研究了果蝇的模式，发现过度暴露在眼睛中的光线会导致或恶化慢性疾病。进一步的研究发现，完全处于黑暗中的果蝇比没有处于黑暗中的果蝇寿命更长。

Too much time spent in front of a screen can harm your health. “The discovery that the eye itself, at least in the fruit fly, can directly change life came as a surprise to us,” Hodge said. “Looking at computer and phone screens and being exposed to light pollution late into the night are especially bad for us,” Kapahi explained. “It messes up eye protection, damaging the rest of the body and the brain.”

花太多时间在屏幕前会损害你的健康。霍奇说: “发现眼睛本身，至少在果蝇中，可以直接改变生命，这让我们感到惊讶。”“看着电脑和手机屏幕，深夜暴露在光污染中，对我们尤其有害，” Kapahi解释道。“它扰乱了眼睛保护，损害了身体和大脑的其他部分。”

These findings are very concerning because screen time has increased fast for many because of COVID-19. Parents reported that children’s screen time increased from 0.75 hours to 6.5 hours a day due to online classes.

这些发现非常令人担忧，因为由于新型冠状病毒肺炎，屏幕时间对许多人来说增长很快。家长报告说，由于在线上课，孩子们的屏幕时间从每天0.75小时增加到6.5小时。