Computer-Neck

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Guess what? Looking at a computer all day is going to make your face fall down. At least, that's what someone called Dr. Michael Prager says. "If you spend most of the time looking down then the neck muscles shorten and go saggy, eventually giving you a second neck. He warned the problem is set to get worse as a generation grows up using computers throughout their working life. He said: "The women I am seeing at the moment have only been using computers at work for the last decade or so. But women in their 20s have grown up with them and use them for every single task. It will be completely different for them and I think the problem is going to become much, much worse. In another ten years, they could be looking quite awful." [Telegraph]