Everyone wants to kick back and relax, but too much bonding time with the couch and TV remote control can cause severe health problems.This lifestyle is known as sedentary life.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has newly estimated that between 60 and 85 percent of people internationally lead sedentary lifestyles. The WHO also issued a caution that an inactive lifestyle could be one of the world's ten most important causes of disability and death. Many researchers have expressed the extensive popularity of a sedentary lifestyle as a disease.
The human body functions best when it is active and dynamic, and the couch potato-ness can cause noticeably increased risks of:
Cancer
Breast cancer
Melanoma
Heart problems
High blood pressure
Stroke
Arthritis
Type II diabetes
But physical activity, even walking for as slight as a half-hour every day, can greatly decrease the risk for these major medical problems. A lively lifestyle, or just adding some more physical activity into one's daily routine, can also help to keep up healthy body ideal weight, maintain strength and muscle mass, decrease the symptoms of sadness and anxiety, and perk up the quality of sleep.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has newly estimated that between 60 and 85 percent of people internationally lead sedentary lifestyles. The WHO also issued a caution that an inactive lifestyle could be one of the world's ten most important causes of disability and death. Many researchers have expressed the extensive popularity of a sedentary lifestyle as a disease.
The human body functions best when it is active and dynamic, and the couch potato-ness can cause noticeably increased risks of:
Cancer
Breast cancer
Melanoma
Heart problems
High blood pressure
Stroke
Arthritis
Type II diabetes
But physical activity, even walking for as slight as a half-hour every day, can greatly decrease the risk for these major medical problems. A lively lifestyle, or just adding some more physical activity into one's daily routine, can also help to keep up healthy body ideal weight, maintain strength and muscle mass, decrease the symptoms of sadness and anxiety, and perk up the quality of sleep.
