7 Reasons Why Sitting Too Much Will Kill You (eBook)

If you take a look around, it is very likely that you will see almost every other person just sitting their life away. That’s right- sitting their life away. The expression is not just a saying but actually means something. For starters, it tells us that too much sitting is definitely not a good thing to do. In fact, a sedentary lifestyle where physical movement has become seriously restricted can lead to nothing good.

But before we move on, let us take a good look at what sedentary means. By way of definition, a sedentary lifestyle is one where there is a lot of sitting and lying down with very little or no exercise. Some experts even consider this type of chronic sitting as deadly as smoking. Apart from stating the obvious that a sedentary lifestyle will obviously bring forth issues like poor health and weight gain, there is a whole plethora of other aspects of sitting down for prolonged periods that can not only be detrimental to health but actually speed up mortality.

It is hard to divide up the reasons of why sedentary behaviors are so bad for health, since many of the reasons are all intertwined. For instance, being sedentary aids weight gain, which in turn affects overall health in a number of ways. Or, an inactive lifestyle slows metabolism which can also lead to a number of health hazards. Likewise, sedentary lifestyles have also been associated with poor mental health, another factor that can set off debilitating health symptoms and impair good health.

So while many of the reasons behind too much sitting being detrimental to good health are all connected, we will attempt to look at the most prominent of these separately and establish how they may actually be taking down your health bit by bit.