With the change in the way people work, sitting for a long time seems to have become a daily routine for urban office workers. But there has been a recent online claim that sitting for more than six hours a day may increase the risk of 12 diseases, so is this statement true?
First of all, we must understand the concept of sedentary, which actually refers to a series of low-energy consumption actions such as sitting and lying down for a long time in a clear state of the human body. According to foreign research on related disciplines, if the human body maintains a sedentary posture every day for more than six hours, the risk of depression, metabolic diseases and other diseases will rise.
It can be seen that sitting for a long time has a very big impact on physical health, so specifically, what is the impact of sedentary life on human health? These four consequences cannot be ignored.
1. Affects the cervical spine
Compared with others, people who maintain a sedentary posture for a long time are often at a much higher risk of suffering from various cervical spine diseases, especially those who need to work in front of the computer for a long time, and the degree of damage to the cervical spine will be more obvious, because the posterior cervical muscle groups will be in a more tense state for a long time, and the cervical facet joints will also be disordered because of this, or lead to excessive strain of the neck muscles. You will suffer from a series of cervical spine diseases.
2. Affects the lumbar spine
At the same time, most of the weight of the body will be borne on the lumbosacral part, at this time, the waist will be under very great pressure, and the lumbar muscles will also be strained, and people will feel soreness and numbness in the waist, if this goes on for a long time, it will also greatly reduce the tissue elasticity of the lumbar intervertebral disc, and even induce cervical bone hyperplasia, which will not only induce serious lumbar muscle strain, but also may lead to inflammatory reaction in the lumbar muscles, and then induce lumbar spondylosis.
3. Affects the gastrointestinal tract
In daily life, a large part of sedentary office workers will quickly return to work after eating, and sometimes even rest immediately, but after the human body completes the eating action, most of the blood in the body will rush into the gastrointestinal tract to help the digestion and absorption of food.
During this period, if people remain in a sitting position, or lie down, it will affect the speed of blood influx into the gastrointestinal tract, and will affect the normal function of the gastrointestinal tract, and cause gastrointestinal dysfunction, and the normal peristalsis speed of the intestines will also slow down, when some food residues can not be discharged from the body in time, it may cause different degrees of constipation symptoms.
4. Affects the body's metabolic rate
As mentioned earlier, the normal function of the gastrointestinal tract will be affected by the long-term sedentary state of the human body, and some metabolic wastes in the body cannot be excreted from the body in time, and on this basis, it will also affect the basal metabolic rate of the human body.
At this time, the body may not be able to burn off the excess calories in time, which will induce abdominal obesity and other phenomena. In addition, the function of the liver will also be disturbed, which is also very detrimental to the health of the body.
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