Is sedentary sitting a new cancer?

Each person spends an average of up to 56 hours per week sitting in a chair-either in front of a computer screen, behind the steering wheel, or in front of the TV. As people become increasingly dependent on modern technology devices and platforms, this trend will only grow stronger. Because women's work requires less physical strength than men, they spend longer sedentary periods. Sitting for a long time and obesity, heart disease and diabetes all have "accomplices" and are called the new "cancer" of modern life and need to be vigilant.

When you are sedentary, your body's metabolic level gradually declines, your muscles are at rest, blood circulation slows down, and calories burning slows down. The enzyme responsible for breaking down triglycerides, a type of fat, also stopped working. If you sit all day, the burning rate of these fats is reduced by 50%.

The less you move, the less blood sugar in your body will be consumed. Studies have shown that sitting for two hours a day increases the risk of developing diabetes by 7%. Because enzymes that break down blood lipids are also inactive, the risk of heart disease is also

rise. In addition, because blood flow decreases and mood-raising hormones enter your brain, you are also more likely to develop depression.

Sitting for too long can also harm spinal health. After sitting all day, your hip flexor and hamstring muscles shorten and tighten, while the muscles that support your spine become weak and stiff. No wonder women are now three times more likely to suffer from chronic lower back pain than they were in the 1990s.

Even spending 30 minutes working out every day cannot offset the damage caused by nine hours of stillness. This is why many people insist on exercising and cannot get rid of obesity, high blood sugar and high cholesterol.

If fitness is not the solution, what should you do? All you need to do is increase your daily non-fitness activities: folding clothes, making love, or simply standing up and walking around often.

An experiment was conducted at Mayo Clinic in which 20 subjects were asked to wear sensor underwear and increase their daily "activity"(rather than exercise) according to the above method. After 10 days, participants had 150 minutes more activity than usual and burned 350 more calories (the equivalent of a hamburger).

Solution: Increase the amount of daily activities. Adding up a few into a few is the king's way

We need to imagine our body as a computer and keep "clicking" it with the mouse. Even if you only exercise a little at a time, the amount of activity accumulated in one day will be enough to restore you to a healthy body.

Therefore, if you can move, you will not be still, and if you can stand, you will not sit. All we have to do is stand up and exercise every 30 minutes. When you answer the phone or read emails, try standing up to talk on the phone or read emails. When discussing business with colleagues, try to find a quiet place to talk while walking. If conditions permit, try replacing your office chair with a large balance ball, because the balance ball will force you to use your muscles to balance your sitting posture.

Instead of doing this:

Sitting in front of the office: burned 83 calories per hour

How to do this:

Occasionally standing up to work: burning 115 calories per hour

Instead of doing this:

Elevator ride: 128 calories

How to do this:

Walking the stairs: 509 calories

Instead of doing this:

Shopping online: 96 calories

How to do this:

Shopping at the mall: 147 calories (calories burned by walking and carrying bags)

Instead of doing this:

Call for takeout: 96 calories

How to do this:

Cooking at home: 128 calories

Instead of doing this:

Sitting on the phone: 102 calories

How to do this:

Making phone calls while walking: 147 calories

Instead of doing this:

Email to colleagues: 96 calories

How to do this:

Go straight to talk to him: 128 calories

Instead of doing this:

Watching TV: 64 calories

How to do this:

Sex: 96 calories

Instead of doing this:

Sitting and playing games: 32 calories

How to do this:

Playing somatosensory games like the Wii: 178 calories

Total comparison:

Sedentary: 697 calories

Increase your daily activity: 1448 calories

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