Eight Things Happen When You Sit All Day
Do you often sit for a long time? Is it harmful? If you have this habit, you can read this article.
Why is it suntanned? Generally, they sit for more than 5 days a week, stay awake for more than 8 hours a day or do not change their posture, and sit for at least 2 hours a day.
Some experts quantified; “Sitting too much”: sitting for one hour is harmful to smoking two cigarettes or reducing the life span of 22 minutes.
Eight things happen when you sit all day
- Increased risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
Sitting for a long time will obviously slow down the blood flow. Fatty acids are easy to accumulate on the inner wall of blood vessels, increasing blood viscosity, and prone to coronary atherosclerosis. Middle aged and old people with coronary arteriosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, etc. can induce myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction.
- Increased risk of lower extremity vascular disease
Prolonged sitting can reduce muscle contraction of legs, delay blood flow of lower limbs, and increase the risk of venous thrombosis of lower limbs. The pelvis and hip joint bear weight for a long time, and the circulation is poor, which affects the blood circulation of the abdomen and lower limbs, so that the blood stays in the veins of the lower limbs for a long time, leading to varicose veins of the lower limbs.
- Increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease
If you sit too long, your blood circulation will slow down. Even in patients with primary diseases, the brain may suffer from insufficient blood supply, dizziness, fatigue, memory loss, attention loss, etc., which will worsen the risk of Alzheimer’s disease for a long time.
- Increased risk of anorectal disease
Sitting for a long time will cause blood stasis around the workplace. Rectal veins are easy to cause hemorrhoids due to varicose veins. Gastrointestinal peristalsis function decreases, stool stagnates for a long time, and the possibility of constipation increases. More importantly, it increases the absorption of toxins in the body and significantly increases the risk of intestinal tumors.
- Increased risk of diabetes
As we all know, proper exercise is one of the prevention and treatment methods of diabetes. Sitting too long, fat accumulation, impaired insulin response, abnormal glucose metabolism and increased risk of diabetes.
- Increased risk of neck, shoulder, waist and back pain
Sitting for a long time, the neck, shoulder and lower muscles are not loose, resulting in poor local circulation, muscle stiffness, muscle damage, headache, neck, shoulder and back pain. It may even lead to corresponding bone and joint degeneration and hyperplasia.
- Increased male disease
If you sit too long, the blood and lymph circulation of male testes will slow down, and the sperm production ability and sperm quality will decline. In addition, the slow metabolism of reproductive organs and poor waste excretion will also lead to infertility and sexual dysfunction.
The risk of prostatitis or epididymitis will increase in men who have a habit of sitting for a long time.
- Women sitting too long will increase gynecological diseases
Women who sit too much also face the problem of gynecological diseases, which will lead to poor pelvic blood circulation, pelvic congestion, poor blood circulation of accessories and cervix, and gynecological diseases. In addition, when sitting for a long time, Yin Qi is blocked, and bacteria are easy to reproduce, which aggravates gynecological inflammation.
What about people who sit too much?
- Sit up for a long time
If you sit for 30~60 minutes, you must get up and exercise properly, stretch your limbs, and let the blood flow.
- Don’t stay in a fixed position for too long
If conditions do not permit, you should sit for a long time and do not keep a fixed position all the time. Properly adjust the sitting posture and relax the limbs.
- Simple exercises
I have to sit for a long time at work, so I usually use after dinner time, toilet time, commuting time and leisure time. For example, take a 30 minute walk after dinner, walk to and from work, and exercise and keep fit properly at ordinary times.
What should people with these diseases do?
Patients with certain diseases had better strictly control sitting time, exercise correctly after meals, and actively prevent primary diseases.
It is best to start treatment after detailed examination of some male or gynecological diseases. For prostatitis, epididymitis and other male infections, people can choose herbal diuretic anti-inflammatory pills, especially for chronic diseases. For some gynecological diseases, such as pelvic inflammation and salpingitis, Fuyan Pill can be selected, and satisfactory results have been achieved.
