ULTRAPROCESSED

Jancee Dunn, NYT journalist wrote:

“Most of us spend five or more hours a day on our phones, according to a 2026 YouGov survey. Four in 10 adults say they are online “almost constantly,” a separate poll by Pew Research found.

All this time in front of screens has an impact on our mental and physical health, raising our stress levels and shrinking our attention span. Our devices change the way we walk and cause us to breathe less often, a stress response known as screen apnea. Dr. John La Puma, an internist and the author of “Indoor Epidemic,” says our phones also make it more tempting for us to stay inside — where we already spend an estimated 90 percent of our time.

Dr. La Puma has a name for those hours we stare at our phones: ultraprocessed time. “Ultraprocessed time is to your attention what ultraprocessed food is to your metabolism,” he told me. “It’s instant gratification, and it’s designed to be addictive.”

Well, I’ll be… I wonder what we should do about this? There is surely a shot or pill, chair yoga, celery juice, fortified organic roasted seaweed, or something that might help stop this phone addiction.

“The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields.” Jesus