Sitting Too Long Bad for Your Health

Spending time sitting in front of the TV or in front of the monitor screen is considered bad for health and weight person. The reason, one's physical movements will decrease and make a number of body muscles do not work optimally.
"Now, new research shows that watching television is not only just but sitting for long might be the enemy of your health. The reason? Will increasingly berurang muscle movement," said Elin E Bak from the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, as reported by Softpedia, Wednesday ( 23/06/2010).
Elin is said, lack of muscle movement is closely related to the risk of obesity, abnormal glucose metabolism, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, the risk of heart disease and cancer.
Sit back, Elin said the same thing by disabling muscle. "Activities of everyday life, such as choosing the stairs instead of the elevator ride, park far from the mall, walking to the store instead of driving, can make a difference to your health. Because of these positive ways involving movement of muscles," he said.
Previous studies, further Elin also showed that the pressure stress can actually help burn calories. However, it is quite small to burn calories, while also adversely affecting the psychological health.