Global Day of Unplugging: How a 24-Hour Digital Detox Can Benefit Your Mind, Body
Health experts urge a 24-hour digital detox to reduce screen time harms including anxiety and depression; Americans spend 4.5 hours daily on phones, Consumer Affairs reports.
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Global Day of Unplugging: 24 hours to be phone-free
Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life, knows the value — and the difficulty — of putting a smartphone out of arm's reach. Price recently led a 30-day phone breakup challenge, based on her book, which invites readers to leave their phones behind for a day. It sounds scary at first. "We come up with all these reasons why we couldn't possibly take a break, she says, "but many of these rea…
Global Day of Unplugging: Can you put down your phone for 24 hours?
FILE - People are off their phones as they take a yoga class on a rooftop in New York CIty (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images) The world is invited to put down their phones and replace screen time with face time as part of the 17th annual Global Day of Unplugging. Here’s what to know about the day of human connection. Global Day of Unplugging 2026The Global Day of Unplugging happens during the first weekend of March every year. The Global Da…
Two-thirds of Brits have never taken a digital detox as reliance on connectivity grows
New research released ahead of Global Day of Unplugging on 6 March suggests the UK remains firmly connected to the digital world. A survey commissioned by Zen Internet and conducted by Censuswide found that nearly two-thirds of Brits (63%) have never taken a break from the internet. The study also found that more than a […] Read this story Two-thirds of Brits have never taken a digital detox as reliance on connectivity grows on Business Mondays.
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