Oily Dragon
Senior Master
Some more stuff to read about the horrible health effects of sitting too long (more than 30m). The current science basically equates long term sitting to smoking cigarettes. Increased heart issue, blood sugar, diabetes, visceral fat gain, cholesterol, and more.
The worst part? Sitting too long can actually negate the effects of exercise before and after. Work out for an hour, then sit on your butt for an hour, your metabolism shuts down, so does the fat burning process. As bad as drinking and smoking after a workout.
"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SIT FOR OVER 30 MINUTES? āMetabolism slows down 90 percent after 30 minutes of sitting. The enzymes that move the bad fat from your arteries to your muscles, where it can get burned off, slow down. The muscles in your lower body are turned off. And after two hours, good cholesterol drops 20 percent. Just getting up for five minutes is going to get things going again."
The worst part? Sitting too long can actually negate the effects of exercise before and after. Work out for an hour, then sit on your butt for an hour, your metabolism shuts down, so does the fat burning process. As bad as drinking and smoking after a workout.
Patterns of Sedentary Behavior and Mortality in U.S. Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A National Cohort Study: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 167, No 7
Background: Excessive sedentary time is ubiquitous in Western societies. Previous studies have relied on self-reporting to evaluate the total volume of sedentary time as a prognostic risk factor for mortality and have not examined whether the manner in which sedentary time is accrued (in short...
www.acpjournals.org
It is NOT okay to sit for more than these many hours a day
Talk about any culture and offering the guest a seat is the most basic part of its mannerism. We all do serious bizz only when we are sitting, right? If someone at work is not found at his desk often, he is labelled as a shirker. So, experts believe that we all need to start with reshaping the...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SIT FOR OVER 30 MINUTES? āMetabolism slows down 90 percent after 30 minutes of sitting. The enzymes that move the bad fat from your arteries to your muscles, where it can get burned off, slow down. The muscles in your lower body are turned off. And after two hours, good cholesterol drops 20 percent. Just getting up for five minutes is going to get things going again."