Why sitting too much is bad for your health.

Right now, you're probably sitting down to use your phone and staying seated for a few minutes is probably okay.

But the longer you stay sit, the more agitated your body becomes.it sits there counting down the moments until you stand up again and takes it for a walk.

That may sound ridiculous.

sure, sitting for brief periods can help us recover from stress or recuperate from exercise.

But nowadays, our lifestyle make us sit much more than we move around and our body simply aren't built for such a sedentary existence.

The human body is built to move, and you can see the evidence of that in the way it's structured, inside us are over 360 joints and about 700 skeletal muscles tha enables easy fluid motion.

So if every inch of the body is ready and waiting for you to move, what happens when you just don't?

Let's start with the backbone, a common way of sitting is with a curved back and slumped shoulders, a position that puts uneven pressure on your spine.overtime this causes wear and tear in your spinal discs.This hunched shape or curved shape also shrinks your chest cavity while you sit, meaning your lungs have less space to expand into when you breath and it temporarily limits the amount of oxygen.

The very act of sitting squashes, pressurizes and compresses your nurves, arteries and veins due to which you experienced numbness in your limbs.

Sitting for long periods also temporarily deactivates a special enzyme in walls of blood capillaries that breaks down fats in the blood and cause excess body fat storage around waist.

Most of the time, you probably sit down to use your brain, but ironically lengthy periods of sitting actually run counter to this goal. Being stationary reduces blood flow and amount of oxygen that your brain requires to remain alert, so your concentration level will most likely dip as your brain activity slows due to less oxygen.

Unfortunately the ill effects of being seated don't only exists in short term, Recent studies have found that sitting for long periods is linked with some types of cancer, heart diseases and even can contribute to obesity, diabetes ,kidney and liver problems.

Worldwide inactivity causes about 9% of premature deaths a year that's over 5 million people.

You're more likely to die earlier from any cause if you sit for long stretches at a time. it doesn't help if you're likely hitting gym or exercise an hour a day but are sitting down for long periods during rest of the day.

But luckily the solutions to this mounting threat are simple and intuitive.

When you have no choice but to sit, try to sit in a straighter spine position and aim to move around much more.you can did this by setting a reminder to yourself to get up every half hour.

Walk around when you're on phone rather than sitting.

In fact since the blog is almost over, why not stand up and stretch right now.even I get up and walk about 4 times while writing this blog.

Treat your body to a walk, it will thank you later.

Source:- Ted Ed