What can you do for your healthy things? As a physical therapist, I saw and heard a lot of health -related habits, whether good or bad. Some are easy to classify and have almost no debate.
exercise? OK
smokes? horrible
Take the ball? Bad? This person will cause a lot of discussions, unfortunately, many wrong information.
You may have heard of the word "Sitting is a new smoking". I tell you here that this is nonsense, and it is not supported in research.
We know through a lot of research that smoking is one of the most serious habits you can adopt for health. The US Department of Health and Public Services reports that smoking has increased the risk of coronary heart disease by 2 to 4 times, stroke increases by 2 to 4 times, and lung cancer 25 times. These are terrible numbers.
Sitting will not bear these risks.
Yes, it may be harmful to sit for a long time, but the numbers are pale compared to smoking. A research on Jama found that the total risk of smoking is 2.8 times that of the smokers compared with non -smokers. On the contrary, a new study on the British Medical Journal shows that for those who have been sitting for 12 hours a day and less than 22 minutes, the risk is only 1.38 times.
Therefore, even if you are sitting all day, you will not damage your body like smoking. If you think of your posture, you can avoid worry. The current research is obvious, there is no ideal posture, sitting for a long time will not damage your spine.
Does this mean that the time to sit for a long time is irrelevant? No, but sedentary is not the main problem, but lack of physical exercise. The same BMJ study showed that more medium and severe strength exercise has been more important than decreased sedentary time.
Focus on moderate and strenuous exercise
BMJ research compares sedentary and activity time. It includes nearly 12,000 participants over 50 years old. Use acceleration meters to track them 5.2 years average. The result shows why exercise ...