{"id":131875,"date":"2025-09-04T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131875\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:23:07","slug":"using-smartphone-too-much-while-on-the-toilet-raises-this-health-risk-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131875\/","title":{"rendered":"Using smartphone too much while on the toilet raises this health risk, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) &#8211; Staying on the toilet too long might not be the greatest thing for your health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">According to a study published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0329983\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0329983\">PLOS One<\/a>, extended use of a smartphone during a bowel movement greatly raises a hemorrhoid risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">People used to read books and magazines in the bathroom, but now a lot of us spend that time endlessly scrolling on smartphones, the study said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">And it found people are reporting a higher rate of hemorrhoids for those who bring their smartphones to the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The study\u2019s senior author says the research is concrete evidence of what many have long suspected: People lose track of time in the bathroom when they scroll on their phones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Health experts have previously recommended spending no more than 10 minutes on the toilet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) &#8211; Staying on the toilet too long might not be the greatest thing for your health. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[83341,54359,83335,83336,83338,83339,83337,83340,165,83332,74,83333,83334],"class_list":["post-131875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-bowel-movement-hemorrhoids","tag-bowel-movements","tag-hemorrhoid-risk","tag-hemorrhoid-risk-on-toilet","tag-hemorrhoid-risk-using-phone-on-toilet","tag-hemorrhoid-risk-using-smartphone-on-toilet","tag-hemorrhoid-risks","tag-journal-plos-one","tag-mobile","tag-smartphone-usage-on-toilet","tag-technology","tag-using-smartphone-on-toilet","tag-using-smartphone-on-toilet-hemorrhoid-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}