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Horrifying Research Finds What Happens to 12-Year-Olds Who Get Smart Phones

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Horrifying Research Finds What Happens to 12-Year-Olds Who Get Smart Phones
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New research suggests a grim consequence of giving smartphones to minors before they even hit their teen years.



By analyzing an existing survey of thousands of children and teenagers in the US, the researchers found that kids who owned a smartphone by the time they were 12 years old were more likely to develop eating disorders compared to kids who didn’t own one, they reported in a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open.



Beyond the devices themselves, the findings are t

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