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Sitting Too Much Can Seriously Affect Your Health

January 20, 2015 By Deborah Cobing Leave a Comment

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Sitting Too Much Can Seriously Affect Your Health Heaps of evidence add up to pin point that sitting too much can seriously affect your health. A new research connects sitting for long periods of time to expanded danger for coronary illness, diabetes, cancer and premature death even in individuals who engage in physical activities regularly.

One of the scientists behind the study, Dr. David Alter of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute noted that regardless of the fact that a person exercises thirty minutes or an hour on a daily basis, this doesn’t mean that sitting for the other 23 hours is alright.

The research, distributed Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine, is the result of a reexamination of past studies. The scientists analyzed the information provided by 41studies conducted worldwide to draft their report.

The report found that the health risks appear to be most prominent for individuals who spend eight or nine hours a day sitting. The effect was much more severe in individuals who did not engage in physical activities routinely.

The normal individual spends more than 50% of their waking hours inactive, probably working on a desktop, sitting in front of the TV or simply in a transportation vehicle.  However, there are some straightforward steps that anybody can follow to integrate more activity in their daily routines.

He recommends getting up and taking a fast, none to three minutes break every thirty minutes or so. Standing burns twice the number of calories as sitting. A few business locales have taken this to heart and given laborers standing work areas to help support their wellbeing and wellness levels while they work.

Alter additionally proposes establishing achievable objectives and developing stamina gradually. He advises patients to begin by reducing their sitting time by 15 to 20 minutes every day. Over the long run, they should go for 2 to 3 less inactive hours per day.

Alter and his team members can’t say which amount of sitting time is excessive. More research is required to get a grasp of what means a solid balance between being inactive and doing physical action.

Around 3.2 million individuals die annually due to lack of physical activity, as per the World Health Organization, making idleness the fourth driving risk element for mortality rates around the world.

The greatest wellbeing risk originating from prolonged sitting was a 90 percent higher danger of developing type 2 diabetes, according to the report.  Among studies analyzing cancer rate and deaths noteworthy connections were particularly observed between sedentary conduct and breast, colon, uterine and ovarian growths.

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About Deborah Cobing

The two C’s that best describe Deborah are calm and calculated. When she was younger she was fiercely determined to become a doctor. That was until she actually got into medicine school. After two years of university she realized that she wasn’t quite cut out for the job. She quickly halted her studies and decided to pursue a career in writing instead.

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