Contents:
- Medical Video: Study: Sitting Too Long Can Kill You
- Sitting too long can increase the risk of death
- Why is sitting too long detrimental to health?
- 1. Too much sitting can make the spine stressful
- 2. Deep vein freezing (DVT)
- 3. Increases the risk of serious illness
- 4. Increases the risk of death
Medical Video: Study: Sitting Too Long Can Kill You
Do you often move in front of a computer all day, or enjoy watching television with hours of sitting time? If so, from now on you have to change the habit of sitting for long if you don't want to get infected with a dangerous disease. What are the bad effects if you sit too long?
Sitting too long can increase the risk of death
Nearly four percent (around 433,000 per year) of deaths in the world are apparently caused by the habits of people who spend more than three hours sitting without moving.
Various studies in the past ten years also explain how the effects of sitting too long for health both with or without exercise.
The new study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, estimates that deaths were due to the effect of sitting too long in 54 countries using data from 2002 to 2011.
Why is sitting too long detrimental to health?
1. Too much sitting can make the spine stressful
As much as 30 percent of the extra burden will be felt on the spine when sitting rather than you stand.
Michael Lanning is a backbone therapist from Gonstead Clinics The United States, said that sitting in a chair is a less natural form when someone wants to rest. Basically, the human body is not designed to sit on a chair, but is designed to squat.
Asian and African communities still use squatting as a form of relaxation when they feel tired. Some people in Asia prefer squatting while waiting for the train or bus they will be riding. Uniquely, this squat position actually prevents stress on the spine.
That is, when a person spends more time sitting in a chair, the body will adapt to habits that are not in accordance with body geometry, and of course this can lead to health problems such as circulatory disorders (cardiovascular disease), decreased muscle strength, muscle shrinkage, easily injured until cancer attacks.
2. Deep vein freezing (DVT)
The most cautious thing about this sedentary or less active lifestyle impact is the increased likelihood of experiencing the risk of deep vein clots (Deep Vein Thrombosis/ DVT) up to twice.
Professor Richard Beasley from Wellington Hospital in New Zealand stated that the threat of danger would come to you if you worked eight hours every day by just dwelling around a table, or spending three consecutive hours just sitting in a laptop.
DVT cases usually occur in people on long haul flights that require hours and require sitting too long. Blood clots occur in veins and usually in the calf. If this freezing is not thawed with a blood thinning drug, it will usually break and be carried into the lungs and lead to deadly pulmonary embolism.
Beasley recommends office workers to routinely stretch muscles to maintain smooth blood flow. A study in Italy also indicated stretching and relaxation reduced the number of headaches in employees by up to 40 percent.
3. Increases the risk of serious illness
The results of research conducted by the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom published in the journal Diabetologia indicate that sitting too long can increase the risk of a number of serious diseases, such as heart attacks, diabetes, even early death.
Heart disease and diabetes are likely to be suffered by people who often sit above 8 hours every day. Even though they have become accustomed to actively exercising for at least 30 minutes every day, but then still sit for hours in each day, the risk of contracting these diseases remains high.
For the average adult, standing can burn more calories and cause more muscle contractions than sitting. One study reported an average thigh muscle activity when standing 2.5 times higher than when sitting.
4. Increases the risk of death
The Journal of Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise explains the results of research that people who have a habit of sitting for 23 hours a week become a strong reason for someone to get heart disease.
Clearly, the results of the study state that those who have a habit of sitting too long (more than 23 hours a week) have a 63% higher risk of death compared to those who sit less than 11 hours per week. This important study was conducted on about 17,000 people in Canada.
