Sitting for a long time will shorten your life as much as smoking

BySciencesque

Syndrome that oversort leads to deathSedentary · Death · SyndromeIs a word made by the advisory committee of the President of the United States in 2002, but the harm of "sitting too much" causing diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, etc. seems to be similar to smoking.

Do not just sit there. Really. - latimes.com
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Mankind was originally designed to walk, and in fact it has walked well for thousands of years. However, it is not so in recent years, according to a survey, many Americans sit over half of the awakening time and seem to be burdening the body. Although it seems to be comfortable to see at a glance, it is an act of "sitting", but continuing sitting has caused poor circulation and body pain in the human body.

When sitting, we do not need much energy. This is a doubtful fact, in other words "When sitting, we do not burn calories too much". In other words, it is easy to gain weight. Those who work in desk work consume only 300 kcal per day, while those who do physical work also consume 2300 kcal. Regarding this matter, Endocrinologist James Levine at Mayo Medical University's Graduate School of Medicine wrote in an article published in 2012, "Is it the Chair that raised the obesity rate is a knife or a knife?"

ByNancy Ward

Working hard from morning till evening has increased your chances of promotion, but it also increases opportunities for diabetes, heart disease, and short-lived. Issued in November 2012DiabetologiaAnalysis of the 18 research results examined for about 800,000 patients in the magazine revealed that the patients who had the longest time to sit on the chair had the risk of diabetes 112% higher than those who had the shortest time to sit on the chair most , The cardiovascular disease was 147%, the cause of death due to cardiovascular disease was 90%, and the mortality rate was 49% higher if the cause was not specified.

Traditionally smoking habits had become synonymous with increasing mortality and health, but "sitting" is a new habit to replace smoking habits, researchers and physician Anup Kanodia points out To do. Issued in October 2012British Journal of Sports MedicineAccording to the contents published at the cigarette smoking, the smoker shortens the lifespan by 11 minutes, but sitting and watching TV for 1 hour reduces his life by 22 minutes It is said that it is. This not only does not burn calories by sitting, but turns bad cholesterol into harmless ones in the bodyLipoprotein lipaseIt is caused by suppressing the production of an enzyme called so. It also makes it easy for obesity and heart disease / diabetesInsulin resistanceIt is also connected.

ByNattu

So then is it sitting and doing work as much as you need to do exercise?

Issued in 2008DiabetesAccording to the magazine, even if you sit 100 times every morning instead of sitting and working all day, for example, the problem is not solved. Even if calories are burned in one exercise, the effect does not last long, and speaking about the production of lipase, it goes down by 90% within one hour.

Therefore, David Kahl proposes a method called "active sitting". This is to increase the amount of walking even those who are working while sitting. As a simple matter, in the survey in 2012, we found that it is possible to improve glucose metabolism even by walking for 2 minutes every 20 minutes. Levine says "Chair is about to kill us." In desk work, it is often that you can not make time to walk while conscious of being bad posture,Meet while walking, or standingEven just it seems that you can reduce the harmful effects of sitting for a long time.

ByGianluca