Are you one of those who think because you exercise regularly and eat hygienically that your health is in top shape? Have you thought about how long you sit in a day and its impact on your health?
Being sedentary due to the advancement in technology is causing untold harm to health and wellness according to research studies. When you think about our daily routine, once we get up in the morning, we: sit down to have breakfast, sit down in the car on the way to work, sit down at work all day, drive home, eat dinner sitting down, and then sit on the couch to watch TV or surf the internet. That’s a lot of sitting down.
Research shows that time spent sitting can lead to:
- Being overweight or obese
- Unhealthy blood-sugar levels and type-2 diabetes
- A greater chance of heart disease
- Other risk factors of poor health, being overweight or obese.
In fact, it’s been shown that if we watch less than two hours of television a day, we can reduce the likelihood of developing these risk factors listed above.
Research suggests that no matter what your total sitting time is, regular interruptions from sitting (even just by standing up) may help to reduce your risk of developing heart disease and diabetes.
