Information Diet , Zirve University English language teaching department

1. INFORMATION DIET
FATMA SAHIN

2. Diet
• Food and drink considered in terms of its
qualities, composition, and its effects on
health.

3. Why do we diet?
• To be healthy
• To be fit
• To be happy
• Our body needs a wide range of nutrients in
the right amounts to grow, develop and
maintain itself. Too much of any nutrient can
lead to problems.

4. Information Diet
• The more food you consume, the more you
get fatter. It causes obesity. Obesity threats
many troubles, illnesses.
• Like obesity, information overloading and
overconsumption can cause psychological
problems. Therefore, humans need
information diet.

5. What is information diet?
• Information diet is conscious consumption. It
means obtaining essential information. Also, it
means that to be selective about what
information you get.
• We feed our head healthy like that we protect
our body by having balanced diet.

6. Why are we overloading information?
With developing
technology, many
devices are being
produced. There are
many social medias,
which are used.

7. Cont.
• People use Internet, social medias, television,
computers, ipads, etc. They spend much time
on them.
• They are not aware of what information they
get.
• They suffer from information overload and
information consumption.
• Everything is based on technology.

8. • For example, when we are on the internet to
search something, there are many
advertisements on a web site. Then, we
wonder about it and click the ad. It is a kind of
unnecessary information. There are lots of
examples about it.

9. The causes of information over
consumption
• There are exploding because of unnecessary
information in case people get more fatter whether
they are fed unhealthy and unnecessarily.
• People can be influenced substantially because of non-
essential information consumption.
• In addition, information over consumption damages
people psychologically.
• Everything (such as social media), which are related to
technology, excides people. These steals our time. Also,
they constrain us from thinking and becoming
socialized.

10. Why should we need information diet?
• We need a balanced information.
• It provides a framework for consuming
information in a healthy way by showing us
what to look for and how to be selective.
• We should diet to think more creatively and
logically.
• Dieting for getting exact information

11. How can we diet information?
• Control ourselves by limiting using technology
devices.
• Spending less time on the internet.
• Being conscious consumer
• Decide to be much more selective about
information
• Set a goal and do not deal with other things
except goal.
• Be more social

12. Thanks For Attention