Effects of Prolonged Sitting
Are you driving vehicle whole day? or sitting in front of the computer more than 3 hours continuously? or sitting idle always?
If you are able to do muscle movement in the body for a longer time then you can live a healthy life. Have you ever had thought, what will happen if you spend the whole day by sitting idle or with your computer?
3 Hours
If you sit for a series of three hours then your body will burn only one calorie. Your blood vessels start compressing. Insulin won’t separate glucose. This will cause slowly type-2 diabetes.
6 Hours
If you sit continuously for 6 hours per day up to 2 weeks then secretion of hormones will be less and the fats start to crumble. Bad cholesterol won’t burn, which will increase body weight. It will begin to cause airway smooth muscles. The heart will find difficulty in pumping the blood.
After a Year
Your bone growth will start to decline. Bone density will start decreasing. If there is not enough blood to the brain, cell growth in the body will decrease and will start to decline. Soon it will get the aging look on your face and also affects hormone secretion.
After 10 – 20 years
Many problems have started to come up in the body, especially the cardiovascular diseases, arthritis. Death is more likely to occur more quickly.
Research
The person who sits long hours is getting 64% of cardiovascular diseases. The research shows that 30% people are affected by prostate and breast cancer.
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I must agree to disagree slightly on the above article about prolonged sitting and the toll it takes on ones body. While I do not have science to back these findings up, I do have my own body to take into account.
My body has always been more slightly on the heavy side..yet proportioned well. I was employed by an office (public) that kept me in my office chair most of the day, hour after hour., basically a sit down job. On occassion either every hour or 2 or 3 hours there would be times to take paper work documents to departments, to other co workers or taking 15-20 min breaks and 1 hour lunches. I spent those times out walking when the weather was nice enough. There were actually a few years in my time there at that job that a couple friends and I would work out for 45 minutes on stepper platforms (from the 80s-90s) to the instructions of Susan Power! After that particular room was no longer available to us(liablility issues) stepping cease to exist and walking more became our norm. After working at this sit down job for 26 years in an office….Im not a diabetic, my cholesterol is great 164,…I dont have Arthritis, bone density is fine, My heart seems fine although I do have high blood pressure and take med for it, but for being the age of 56 that isnt too uncommon. So I guess what Im saying is, that people that sit for 3 hours wether it be for their job, at home watching tv, at an airport, movies, etc….I think that they can counter act the effects of danger to their bodies if they make up the inactivity by engaging in activity of some kind that raises their hearbeat some. This way all those “bad” things dont necessarily have to occur if they make sure they work out their body for the “good”things ; )
Hello Vivian Dozier,
What you said is correct. As you said persons have to engage in some activities to work out their body for some good things.