Sitting down after playing soccer for an hour might be refreshing and relieving, or even healing, but sitting down ideally, all the time and not roaming around at all may prove to be hazardous for your health. Yes, sitting for too long while you are at work or up to something else, can affect your health adversely. Let us have a look at some of the affects of prolonged sitting.
Affect on Head:
- Blood clots may occur in our body after sitting too rigidly for too long.
- These blood clots may travel up to the brain, causing strokes.
- This will result in lack of concentration, headache, impulsive pain waves, strain etc.
Affect on Heart:
Prolonged sitting that is, a sedentary lifestyle is directly related to Cardiovascular diseases , heart failure etc. Active body is highly important for a heart to function healthily. A body that is too lazy to move leads to accumulation of fluid and that fluid can then adversely affect your heart.
Affect on Lungs:Â
- Prolonged sitting leads to accumulation of fluid in the body.
- This accumulated fluid first backs up in the lungs hence affecting our lungs adversely.
Affect on Stomach:
- Sitting for too long means an overly inactive body, and a body that is not physically active is always at the risk of obesity and colon cancer.
- Due to prolonged sitting, enzymes in the blood vessels of muscles responsible for burning fat gets shut off, and the body’s method of metabolizing glucose, lipids etc gets disrupted.
Affect on Neck:
- Sitting for long with your neck upright and facing the front may lead to stiffness in neck, strain at the back and sometimes sprain as well.
- Also the fluid that is accumulated while sitting for long, tend to travel up the neck at night hence leading to strained areas in neck.
Affect on Legs:
- Sitting for too long of course leads to accumulation of fluid in the legs.
- This fluid if retained may cause difficulty in walking as well.
- Therefore, a little walk after every while is very important to keep your legs in function.
Sitting for too long can cause all of these health affects, so the next time you rest your bums and then forget to bother them at all, keep this six health affects in mind. Happy sitting!
