Don't let wearable electronic products become a new source of health anxiety
2025-05-20
Currently, many people have become accustomed to tracking their health data through wearable electronic devices. Statistics show that in 2024, the sales volume of China's intelligent wrist worn devices in the omni channel market reached 57.04 million units, a year-on-year increase of 14.2%. These "micro clinics" on the wrists are producing billions of health data such as heart rate, blood oxygen, blood sugar, and blood pressure every second. The body data that used to require professional equipment to detect in hospitals is now monitored in real-time 24 hours a day by small electronic devices. When health data is quantified, a new question arises: Have you gained a caring assistant in your life, or have you been kidnapped by health anxiety? Wearable electronic products do have many positive effects. For example, the sleep monitoring function of a smartwatch can provide users with a preliminary understanding of their sleep situation. Continuous glucose monitor for diabetes patients can give real-time warning of hypoglycemia risk. For people with hypertension, smartwatches can capture abnormal fluctuations in blood pressure. Fitness enthusiasts can use fitness wristbands to record their heart rate and guide scientific training. These wearable electronic products make health management more scientific and greatly improve the convenience of health management, allowing the public to know some physical health indicators anytime and anywhere. Although health data is accurate, it should also be viewed rationally, especially to prevent misleading judgments caused by "false accuracy" of the data. A doctor used weight as an example to explain that if someone adopts improper weight loss methods such as ketogenic diet and extremely low-carbon diet, their weight will rapidly decrease in the short term, but these losses may only be muscle and water in the body, not fat. In addition, there are many factors that can affect weight changes, and they are constantly changing. If you only look at data without analyzing changes in body shape and composition, it may create anxiety and lead to more problems in the body. It has been proven that improper use and excessive focus on health data can also cause a lot of trouble. Some people believe they have lung disease because their smartwatch indicates low blood oxygen saturation. Someone went on a diet for a week due to fluctuations in body fat percentage. Some people are very careful when eating due to the fluctuation of blood glucose meter data, losing the pleasure of enjoying delicious food. In addition, excessive association between health data and physical illnesses can cause long-term tension in the nervous system, which may lead to health problems such as insomnia and digestive disorders, and even evolve into mental problems such as anxiety disorders. Rational use of wearable electronic products can avoid triggering health anxiety. Users should strictly control the frequency of monitoring indicators, such as setting a "time window" for data viewing or recording key indicators at a fixed time every day, using trend observation instead of constant attention. At the technical level, device manufacturers should optimize the way data is presented and add professional interpretation functions to avoid users misinterpreting data. In addition, it is necessary to introduce "anti addiction" systems for wearable electronic products, such as limiting the number of data readings or extending the interval time. In addition, it is necessary to avoid social media platforms using wearable electronic devices to generate anxiety. On some social media platforms, health monitoring data has become a new type of "social currency", such as topics and tutorials like "challenging a monthly average sleep of 90 points" and "teaching you how to cheat a smartwatch to achieve a perfect heart rate", which have turned health data into quantifiable, comparable, and conspicuous capital, causing anxiety among those who do not meet the indicators. Therefore, social platforms should restrict the behavior of sharing data to prevent health management from becoming a digital game. Especially be wary of someone intentionally creating health anxiety and then promoting related health products. Although wearable electronic products have brought convenient health monitoring methods to consumers, they have also brought many troubles. Therefore, it is important not to overly rely on and pay attention to data changes, and to avoid being deliberately led by anxious behavior. The goal of health management is to keep oneself in a healthier state, rather than pursuing perfection in data. Only by taking a rational view of health data can we achieve the goal of seeking benefits and avoiding harm, making wearable electronic products a powerful assistant for people's healthy lives, rather than a new source of anxiety. (New Society)
Edit:Luo yu Responsible editor:Wang er dong
Source:Beijing Youth Daily
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