Replacing 30 minutes of social media use with physical activity boosts mental health

Replacing half an hour of social media time with physical activity was associated with improvements in mental health, according to researchers.
With the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruptions in daily life, “social media use became one of the main options for social interaction and pastime,” Julia Brailovskaia, PhD, of the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany, and colleagues wrote in the Journal of Public Health.
Some people who feel a “heavy psychological burden” use social media excessively to alleviate feelings of

Replacing half an hour of social media time with physical activity was associated with improvements in mental health, according to researchers.
With the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruptions in daily life, “social media use became one of the main options for social interaction and pastime,” Julia Brailovskaia, PhD, of the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany, and colleagues wrote in the Journal of Public Health.
Some people who feel a “heavy psychological burden” use social media excessively to alleviate feelings of