Sitting is a terminal disease!
You’ve read it right. It’s something terminal. It’s something that could easily terminate you. Sedentary life is not something good. And we all sit a lot. It has become a way of living. Unhealthy one.

What happens when you're sitting?

• Sitting more than six hours per day makes you up to 40% likelier to die within 15 years than someone who sits less than 3. And even if you exercise!
• Most of us sit about 9 hours a day.
• What happens when you are sitting?
• The activity in your leg muscles shuts off.
• Calorie burning drops to 1 per minute.
• Enzymes that break fat drop 90%.
• Good cholesterol drops 20%.
• Insulin effectiveness drops and risk of diabetes rises.
• People with sitting jobs have twice the rate of getting a cardiovascular disease.

That’s not all.

Bones suffer too. Veins and artheries too.
Blood clots that form during your sitting period travel to the brain and cause strokes. Fluid accumulates in lungs. Neck muscles get affected too. Fluid is also accumulated in legs. It also contributes to obesity and colon cancer. And arms get affected too. There are increased risks of high blood pressure.
What you could do? STOP SITTING!
How to do it? Well today, that’s not a thing you could easily do. You’ve got a job that requires you to sit all day long.

But interrupting those 8 hours of work with 30 minutes of activity is something you could do.
So interrupt your sitting whenever you can to STRETCH, WALK OR MARCH IN PLACE or do JUMPING JAKCS. Whatever you can.
Whenever you’ve got a chance take a walk around the office.
Change the TV for something else. It is still sitting. Or you can watch TV standing. That’s also a good start.
Just realise one thing – sitting is bad! Stand up! Stretch up! Walk! Whatever! Just don’t sit!