How to overcome a sedentary lifestyle? Here is a rule to avoid "sitting disease" and extend life one hour at a time
How to overcome a sedentary lifestyle, especially if you do an office job? Here is a golden rule to avoid "sitting disease" and extend life one hour at a time
Against a sedentary lifestyle a little big rule can help to improve health and disorders that can affect those who spend a lot of time sitting. The advice was designed for the elderly, but we can certainly consider it valid for everyone, since it is now amply demonstrated that the lack of movement is the basis of many health problems, even fatal. So, it seems obvious, but to combat a sedentary lifestyle you systematically try to force yourself to get up from your chair for 10 minutes every hour and walk, even on the spot. (Read also: Walking in place: 7 good reasons to start doing it not only at home (or in the gym)
This is what emerges from a series of studies collected in the book by James Levine, a researcher expert in the fight against sedentary lifestyle famous for having published a study on the “Seated Disease”. The researcher also wrote a book "Get up: why your chair is killing you and what you can do " from the title of the book, to say the least unequivocal. There sedentary has been related to 34 various pathologies, from cognitive decline to type 2 diabetes, from cancer to stroke to heart disease. In short, comparable to the damage of smoking.
Those who spend less time sitting live longer. The suggestion to do at least remains valid 30 minutes of physical activity per day, according to Levine, but that can't counteract the negative effects of sitting all the time. Therefore, according to the endocrinologist, you need to get up from your chair at least 10 minutes every hour and move.
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The advice is especially valid for sedentary adults and retirees who want to live longer and full of energy after a lifetime of work. The expert also recommends taking short walks often, for example simply in the garden.
Other useful tips are: folding the laundry while standing, pedaling on an exercise bike while watching TV, walking around the house while talking on the phone and shopping by going to the stores as an opportunity to move around a little, rather than via the internet. It is a set of very simple good habits to put into practice to overcome a sedentary lifestyle. Remember that moving more and walking for at least 30 minutes a day according to the most recent studies helps prevent diabetes and obesity, improve immune defenses, increase productivity and not only.
Fonte: Sick of sitting
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