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    Estilos de vida saludable y la relación con la tecnología
    (Universidad EAFIT, 2017) Buitrago Escobar, Santiago; Villegas Moreno, Carolina; Arias Salazar, Alejandro; Mejía Gil, María Claudia
    The World Health Organization calls on the different countries on the need to develop campaigns and strategies to help reduce non-communicable chronic diseases, which are mainly caused by the lack of a healthy lifestyle and lack of practices of self-care, which are based on a good diet and a constant physical activity -- This research sought to know what the uses of people with a healthy lifestyle to technology, with the aim of understanding how the latter could contribute to healthy habits of life -- The research approach was mixed with descriptive level and its population were people from the city of Medellín, Colombia, between 25 and 35 years considered Millenials, strata 4, 5 and 6 that lead a healthy lifestyle -- Interviews were conducted with four experts, two focus groups and 216 surveys and then the analysis of the information -- In this research we explored questions such as: meaning of the concept of healthy lifestyle, the different variables that compose it, such as: food, physical activity and found a new component which is the sleeping variable -- This last variable was identified by the subjects of study as fundamental to be able to announce that a person leads a healthy lifestyle -- During the research, the behaviors characterizing the people mentioned above were recognized, what does the healthy lifestyle identified by them mean to them as a balance between body and mind from the three dimensions previously described and finally what is the use that give the technology where they found that they use the internet and social networks to follow influencers about this lifestyle that in many cases are not professionals -- At the same time, it was identified that the study subjects do not consider that to be able to carry this same are necessary devices that constantly measure their improvement, contrary to global trends found -- With this research we hope that health professionals who are looking for healthy life strategies from the use of technology, find relevant information that will lead them to enrich their research and strategies to help patients achieve a healthy lifestyle -- At the same time, we seek to help transform our society from the recognition of the implications of the use of technology in the day to day of people who lead a lifestyle like this