Saturday, July 14, 2012

Sitting More Than 3 Hours Leads Various Diseases.

Leg muscles are less active, you will have difficulty managing blood sugar.

Recent studies have found that sitting for three hours a day could potentially reduce life expectancy by two years.

When watching television more than two hours to reduce the chances of survival of 1.4 years. There are also limits how long a child can watch television.

"The increase in sedentary behavior or lack of movement is a serious risk factor, as well as smoking and obesity," said Peter Katzmaryk, professor of epidemiology of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana, United States.

He analyzed five previous studies involving 167 000 men and women aged 18-90 years from various countries.

Many people do not realize the dangers of sitting too long. Many feel they have no health problems by exercising at least 30 minutes a day. They do not realize, that fills the remaining time of about 23.5 hours of physical activity is essential to the health benefits.

"When you sit down, your leg muscles are not really active, and you will have difficulty managing blood glucose which will impact on health," said Katzmaryk.

Previous research related to the length of time to sit and watch TV with health risks such as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Associated with the disease susceptible to trigger an early death.

In the past year, scientists found that those who work with high intensity or sitting does not require much energy for 10 years, has two-fold increased risk of colon cancer, and increased risk of rectal cancer by 44 percent.

In March 2012, they also found the risk of cancer to obesity and physical inactivity. Cancers including cancers of the pancreas, kidneys, lower esophagus and uterus. Not only that, previously well known, that sitting too long also increase the risk of diabetes.

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