How bad is sitting for too long? Can exercise ameliorate the dangers of sitting for too long?

 

With the development of science and technology, people's quality of life has been improved, clothing, food, housing and transportation have become very convenient, stay at home, order a takeaway can solve food and clothing. There are also more intelligent products, better to help us free hands, such as dishwasher, sweeping robot, etc., do not have to do their own housework.

Everything has two sides, the development of science and technology makes our life more convenient, but there is also another side. As the saying goes, life lies in movement. Nowadays, most people rely too much on these intelligent products, leading to less and less daily activities, and the amount of activities is very little after a day. Of course, most office workers, every day from 9 to 6 working time, either long sitting or long standing, is very common things. Sitting for a long time has become the most common way of life for people, even if it is the weekend holiday, or sitting or lying watching TV, playing games, serious lack of exercise.

So is sitting bad for you? How bad is sitting for too long? If you exercise regularly, can you improve the harmful effects of sitting for too long? With these questions, let's talk about it with you!

On the dangers of sitting too long

Sitting for a long time seems to be everyone's life habit nowadays, so most people ignore it and think there is nothing wrong with sitting for a long time. But in fact, the World Health Organization has long been listed as one of the ten leading causes of death and disease. Therefore, we have to ignore the harm of sitting for a long time, although short-term sitting has not found what harm to health, but this kind of hidden danger will become obvious with age, so we must pay attention to the harm of sitting for a long time, and reduce the habit of sitting!

1, sitting will lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain, so that the brain oxygen supply and nutrient reduction, the human body is easy to feel tired, leading to insomnia at night and memory decline, etc., will also improve the probability of suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

2, sitting harms the lumbar spine. The body in the long-term sedentary state, neck, shoulder, waist, back and other long-term tension fixed state, these parts of the blood circulation is blocked, great harm to the lumbar spine, resulting in headache, cervical spondylosis, other lumbar diseases.

Sitting can damage the kidneys. This argument is not unreasonable, sedentary will oppress the bladder meridian, resulting in blocked bladder meridian qi and blood operation, leading to bladder dysfunction, will cause renal dysfunction (because the kidney meridian and bladder meridian phase).

4, sitting causes hemorrhoids. Sitting for a long time can make the pressure of the rectal vein in the body improve, cause the thin wall of the vein around the rectum to dilate, will cause congestion and cause hemorrhoids.

5. Sitting causes obesity. We all know that sitting for a long time can lead to obesity, especially abdominal fat, which is especially easy to accumulate, forming a belly. When the body becomes fat, it will not only cause the deformation of the body, but also affect the health of the body.

6. Sitting will lower your resistance. Sedentary, will affect the normal functioning of the body, leading to reduced immune function, the body's resistance to decline, it is easy to catch a cold.

Can exercise ameliorate the harmful effects of too much sitting?

We all know the answer to this question. Exercise can certainly ameliorate the harmful effects of sitting for too long. Sedentary harms, we strengthen exercise can improve the harm, after all, life lies in exercise.

Whether sitting or standing for a long time, only usually more exercise, in order to reduce the harm they bring, so how to do?

1. Move more

Some people also understand that it takes more walking to reduce sedentary illness, but that's hard to do. For example, if you are a sedentary office worker, working 8 hours a day, how do you have time to get up and move or exercise? In fact, time is squeezed, it depends on your own willingness to do it.

We can get up and move around every hour during office hours, such as getting a drink of water or going to the bathroom, which is also a way to reduce the amount of time we spend sitting. Holiday at home also do not sit or lie down, should do more housework, can also do some simple freehand exercises, such as yoga, squat, jumping jacks, push-ups and so on. Forming a healthy lifestyle is one of the ways you can ameliorate the effects of too much sitting -- again, it's up to you to do it.

2. Exercise every week

Exercise is one of the best ways to ameliorate the effects of sitting for too long. Keep moving and you'll see the disease of sitting slowly escape you. Some people say that they are so tired at work that they have no time to exercise. In fact, most of the fatigue caused by sitting at work is mental, and exercise can help us alleviate this fatigue, and improve the harm caused by sitting too long, so don't use fatigue as an excuse. You can exercise when you get up early in the morning, and you can exercise when you get home from work in the evening. So, it depends on whether a person is willing to do this thing.

In a word, sitting for a long time is very harmful to the body, these hazards may be in a short time you can not detect, but with the growth of age, you will obviously feel the harm of sitting, and insist on exercise is the best way to improve the harm of sitting!