Friday, November 6, 2015

Study reveals that online shopping is good for health


In spite of what critics may say, a study has revealed that online shopping prevents work-related stress and several types of health issues that are caused like hypertension and depression. The study was conducted over a period of six months in major cities of Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Pune.
It has shown that more than 40 percent of professionals world wide consider online shopping to be a solution for their stress and depression caused due to their work.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 6 November 2015.
In the course of the study, it was revealed that most of the people felt that online shopping was an easier way to lower stress as it needed less efforts.
The study was carried out by a leading web portal Shop Pirate. Its findings show that 45 percent of the people in India voted online shopping to be the best way to ensure temporary distraction from anxieties caused by the work. Incidentally, as per the health ministry, 40 percent of the people in cities and 20 percent in rural India suffer from hypertension and the number was fast increasing as a result of a sedentary lifestyle and hectic working official working hours.
Of course, the fat remains that online shopping deprives the buyer the chance of seeing and feeling fist hand what he or she is buying.

(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)


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