Wellness : Are you twittering with it ???

This post comes as a dedication to my tweetfriend Liliane as a voracious twitterer like me to enlighten our readers the benefits and ill effects of social networking on wellness.

Ever since the world has shrunk into a web of broadband, cable and data network it's almost a ritual to be a pius member of some social network portal. It has given us an oppurtunity to connect, explore and create possibilities we wouldn't have imagined more than a decade ago. While some have used the network to their immense benefit the rest have merely reduced to become its victims. Some may ask how has it influenced our wellbeing? Well here is a perspective to look into and wonder.

We all are well aware of how people struggle to lose weight, attain fitness, fight their illness, and worse try endlessly to look like their idols. The correct solution to every problem lays in the correct information. This has become very easy since people started networking throughout the globe on social sites like twitter, facebook, mysace, orkut, you name it and they were on it. These networks opened access to information from quacks as well as professionals and thus the road to health was embarked. In the meanwhile the social networking also helped in easing out loneliness and depression secondary to obesity and other lifestyle related illnesses. Sure enough chatting with people in support groups and online friends helps to motivate while on a regime. Wellness after all begins and ends with one's happiness. Defeating depression and finding a new way to living a healthy life at the same time was never as easy as click of a key. The social networks offer online consults with fitness trainers, dietitians, doctors, pharmacists and so on and so forth expanding your reach everytime you click on the right link. Although information acquisition isn't enough the guidance to a healthy lifestyle has been offered here too.

So one wonders where do people go wrong while networking on social sites? Its the differentiating information from a professional to that of a quack is the key. A professional would not try to sell to hard and fast his/ her services but would first educate you on health and its benefits. Winning the confidence of your client is more important than selling a service. Besides the wrong information going around people further took to extending their sedentary lifestyle a step ahead by constantly being glued to their computers or mobile phones leaving no time to actually get up eat right and exercise right. So the ill effects on wellness skipped a step and went straight to where it started - A Sedentary Life. As we say anything in excess is toxic and so is the case in relation with social networking and wellness.
Where you have a domain full of accurate information please use it don't abuse it. After all it helps to see someone benefit out of the information I as a professional have put out on the web rather than see the ill effects.

Wish you wellness,
Neha Wasnik
R.D
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