A bad news coming about sitting.Sitting, a daily activity, that none of us can’t leave this habit can kill you smoothly. Sitting for hours on end, every day, is bad for your health. Sitting at work is bad for you. Sitting after work is bad for you. Scientist said that sitting is the new smoking, the new way to kill you. except that the furniture lobby probably isn't as powerful as the tobacco one. A lot of research has appeared in the last few years as a testament to this activity.
If
you work in an office setting, sitting is hard to avoid, unless you're an early
adopter of the treadmill desk. You might laze around the house on your days
off, but one study found that people spend more time sitting--and do
less standing or walking--on work days compared to their leisure days. You may
have lost track of all of the ways that your office job can turn deadly. So as
I sit hunched over in my rolling chair in a position that screams "live
fast, die young". let's talk about what kind of damage all we, the
over-sitters, are in for. This is the damage of sitting for hours each day. There
are 7 bad effect of sitting :
1. Chronic Disease
there are a
research / a survey that taken in australia on february 2013. This survey
involved around 63,048
middle-aged Australian men, those who sat for more than four hours a day were
significantly more likely to have a chronic disease like high blood pressure,
heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
The
more time they spent sitting, the more likely the subjects were to have a
chronic disease of some sort, regardless of their body mass index or how much
they exercised. Those who sat at least six hours per day were significantly
more likely to have diabetes in particular.
2.
Reduced Life Expectancy
By
reducing "excessive sitting" to less than three hours a day, the U.S.
life expectancy could increase by two years, according to a July 2012 study in BMJ Open.
Reducing TV time to less than two hours a day would bump it up by 1.4 years.
(By comparison, smoking knocks off 2.5 years of life expectancy for men and 1.8
years for women.)
The
study estimated that the average adult spends 55 percent of his or her day
doing something sedentary, but also notes that even high levels of
self-reported sitting could be conservative. It's not easy to remember all the
time you've spent sitting during the day, since it's not necessarily a
domain-specific behavior like watching TV.
3.
Kidney Disease
In
Ocotober 2012, analysis of a self-reported survey -- 6,379 people between the
ages of 40 and 75 -- found that even controlling for physical activity and body
mass index, those who sat less had lower risk of having chronic kidney disease.
The effect was especially profound in women: When they cut down their sitting
time from a full workday to only three hours, their risk fell by more than 30
percent. For men, the risk decreased by 15 percent. This report, show us how
sitting for hours increase the risk of kidney disease, and an exercise of
decreasing the sitting hours can decrease the risk of this disease. So, what are
we waiting for? Let’s do it.
4.
Poor Mental Health
According to self-reported survey data from almost
3,500 people of non-occupational sitting time -- watching TV, using a computer,
driving, etc. -- sitting time outside of work was negatively associated with
mental health for women. Again, men got off comparatively easy -- only sitting
time at the computer negatively impacted their mental well-being.
Obesity can’t separated with bad habit of diet and
activities. Obese individuals
sit 2.5 more hours a day than lean individuals, according to a November 2009 Obesity
study. In turn, sitting more is associated with Metabolic Syndrome, a
combination of factors -- like abdominal obesity, low levels of "good
cholesterol," high blood pressure, high triglyceride levels or
hyperglycemia -- that together put you at a higher risk for serious medical
issues like heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
A
review study in PLOS ONE
last year confirmed that people who spent more time being sedentary were 73
percent more likely to have metabolic syndrome. In 2005, a group of researchers
theorized
that reducing TV and computer use to less than one hour a day outside of work
could reduce the prevalence of adult metabolic syndrome in the U.S. by 30 to 35
percent.
6.
Death From Colorectal Cancer
A
January 2013 study in the Journal of
Clinical Oncology found that both before and after being
diagnosed with colorectal cancer, more leisure time spent sitting down meant a
higher risk of death. The study tracked the self-reported habits of more than
2,000 patients with colorectal cancer for up to 16 years after their diagnosis.
The most physically active had a 28 percent lower chance of dying than those
who exercised less. Those who spent at least six leisure hours a day sitting had
a 36 percent greater risk of dying than those who sat less than three hours a
day.
A
March 2012 study in the Archives of
Internal Medicine tracking more than 200,000 Australian
individuals 45 years and older found that regardless of sex, age and body mass,
sitting puts you at a higher risk for mortality from all causes. People who sat
more than 11 hours a day had a 40 percent higher risk of dying within three
years. The risk of death was much lower for people who exercised five hours a
week or more, but it didn't negate the sitting death-trap. Time to shell out
for a standing desk.
Source : Popsci
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