{"id":95124,"date":"2015-02-28T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=95124"},"modified":"2015-02-27T19:12:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:12:23","slug":"cut-music-to-an-hour-a-day-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/02\/cut-music-to-an-hour-a-day-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut music to ‘an hour a day’ – WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"
People should listen to music for no more than one hour a day to protect their hearing, the World Health Organization suggests.<\/p>\n
It says 1.1 billion teenagers and young adults are at risk of permanently damaging their hearing by listening to “too much, too loudly”.<\/p>\n
It said audio players, concerts and bars were posing a “serious threat”.<\/p>\n
WHO figures show 43 million people aged 12-35 have hearing loss and the prevalence is increasing.<\/p>\n
In that age group, the WHO said, half of people in rich and middle-income countries were exposed to unsafe sound levels from personal audio devices.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile 40% were exposed to damaging levels of sound from clubs and bars.<\/p>\n
The proportion of US teenagers with hearing loss went from 3.5% in 1994 to 5.3% in 2006.<\/p>\n
WHO v The Who<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Dr Etienne Krug, the WHO’s director for injury prevention, told the BBC: “What we’re trying to do is raise awareness of an issue that is not talked about enough, but has the potential to do a lot of damage that can be easily prevented.”<\/p>\n The full report argued: “While it is important to keep the volume down, limiting the use of personal audio devices to less than one hour a day would do much to reduce noise exposure.”<\/p>\n Dr Krug said that a good ambition aim: “That’s a rough recommendation, it is not by the minute, to give an idea to those spending 10 hours a day listening to an mp3-player.<\/p>\n “But even an hour can be too much if the volume is too loud.”<\/p>\n