Why quitting email is good for your heart Ignoring your email
inboxes can reduce stress by having a positive effect on the
heart, new research has suggested But scientists say quitting
email would be as difficult as giving up drugs. According to
some estimates, more than 200 billion e-mails are sent across
the internet every day. But while they may have improved
communication speeds, there have been concerns that electronic
messaging is detrimental to both physical and mental health. To
assess the effects, University of California researchers
recruited 13 men and women who used computers in the workplace,
ranging from chemical engineers to psychologists, the Daily Mail
reported. Speaking to The Times about her experiment University
of California informatics professor Gloria Mark said, “I had
this crazy idea that people were addicted to email.” “So I
started thinking, the way you can test that is if you take
people away from email cold turkey. You should see symptoms of
withdrawal, the same way people are addi