Killing us softly ? Eyes and hands are not only parts of the body to be harmed by prolonged exposure to a computer. Cancer, impotence and paralysis are some of the other lesser-known real ganders of electro-stress.
Is you PC slowly killing you? Yes. The monster called "PC" that occupies a big chunk of your work place or your work desk at home is slowly, but surely making you sick. Hours spent working on the PC affect your eyes, stiffen the tendons and muscles in your arms and hands and strain your neck and spinal cord. The PC continuously bombards you with electromagnetic radiation and	can also make you impotent and depressive. No, we are not exaggerating ! Today, more thanten years after computers arrived at the work place, doctors and scientists are sounding the alarm. Consequences of working for long hours at the PC are showing up everywhere. In the US, the country with the latest computer density per resident, a study carried out by the Consumer	Society in Illinois found that 66 percent of all professional maladies can be traced to computers. Not only that : 75 percentof all computer users from physical aliments, like trouble with eyes and arm movements. The aliments from the age of computers may bear strange names like CTS or RSI, but for those who suffer, the reality is hardly funny.
Source : CHIP Magazine October, 1998.