Sitting down at a desk all day is a habit that will ACTUALLY shorten your life!
Since a lot of us have desk jobs, this information may sound very daunting. After all, it’s not every day you find out that by sitting down you’re losing years of your life. But with how much evidence there is out there when it comes to how much prolonged sitting affects your health, we feel like it’s high time this habit we all have is brought front and center in our minds.
Not only will it lead to a shortened lifespan, but research has shown that even if you work out regularly and are generally fit, it may not make much of a difference. An assistant professor of nutritional sciences from Cornell University has said that the assumption that if you’re physically active during the day and are keeping in shape, it will act as a protector against the effects of sedentarism is false.
She said that no matter how much you work if you spend too much time sitting each day, there is nothing that can make it better. If anything, it may even make matters worse since your body goes from one advanced state to another one pretty fast and it can create an effect of whiplash in your body.
Professor Seguin recommends that if you’re working in an office, you shouldn’t ignore breaks and you should always find ways in which you can get up and move around frequently, even if that means getting a smartwatch or app that will remind you to do so. And yes, that means that eating lunch at your desk is a thing of the past! You can get up and go to the kitchen to eat, and if you do this, you will also be forced to socialize!
This goes for the time you aren’t spending at work as well. You should get up during commercial breaks if you’re watching a show or the news, and take breaks from watching your show on a streaming service or when you’re sitting at the computer. Even if you are now retired, you should make an even more conscious effort to interrupt this habit of being very sedentary!
And once you start, believe us, it will come as second nature to not be seated for prolonged periods!
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