Combat the Sitting Disease
Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 9:45PM ;)
Don't Say You Can't ExerciseIn her blog, The Great Fitness Experiment, Charlotte Hilton Anderson challenges us to increase Standing in our lives to combat the "Sitting Disease".
That's right, I'm doing an Experiment about standing. Before you laugh yourself silly, consider the research, courtesy of Women's Health Magazine:
- Sitting down causes your body to shut down fat burning enzymes, reducing fat burnage by up to 50%.
- For every two hours spent camped out on your butt, your risk of diabetes increases 7%
- For every one hour on your backside, incidence of metabolic syndrome increases 26%
- Sitting for extended periods of time has also been linked to increased risk of heart disease and depression.
- Sitting for a long time is murder on your posture and can lead to all kinds of injuries due to weakened, imbalanced and inflexible muscles.
That's the research.....read more of Charlotte's post about standing more and increasing incidental activity.