Why Sitting Can Wreck Your Health from Health Briefs

That twenty minute moderately-paced walk taken in the mid-afternoon is completely wiped out by the remaining two hours of sitting in a cubicle at work. Health Briefs looks at how sitting can wreck your health and how to remedy it.

Many articles have been written and published about how a sedentary lifestyle can shorten one’s life. A new study is out which states that sitting for two hours can wipe out 20 minutes of cardio-respiratory fitness levels. The Mayo Clinic Proceedings report published very recently found that sitting for too long affects people’s fitness levels no matter whether they exercised or not.  Sitting for too long all day and into the evening can increase the risks for obesity, stroke and heart attacks. But if we make a conscious effort to get up and move a little at work and at home, we can reduce those risks. The Mayo Clinic study also found that even some movement during the day at work helps. Get up and walk on breaks. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Park farther from the building. Every little bit of exercise we get is helpful in some way.  Health Briefs suggests doing all of these every day. It takes very little effort to get up and move a little. And every part of the body will benefit from muscles and joints to hearts and minds. 

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