The Impact of Prolonged Sitting on Your Health

Since it has been confirmed that prolonged sitting is not good for our health, kindly advise those of us whose jobs involve sitting for long hours on how to tackle this problem. Living a sedentary lifestyle can be dangerous to your health.....Read Full Article>>

The less sitting or lying down you do during the day, the better your chances for living a healthy life. If you stand or move around during the day, you have a lower risk of early death than if you sit at a desk. If you live a sedentary lifestyle, you have a higher chance of being overweight, developing type 2 diabetes or heart disease and experiencing depression and anxiety.

You can move around at work more than you think: take the stairs instead of the lift, walk over and talk to your colleagues instead of emailing them, take your lunch break away from your desk and enjoy a short walk outside if you can as well as organize walking meetings. Don’t let bad weather stop you from being active! You can do body weight exercises such as squats, sit-ups, and lunges.

You can also try indoor activities such as: dancing, swimming at an indoor pool, playing squash among others. You can also do the following while at home; when you’re tidying up, put items away in small trips rather than taking it all together, set the timer on your television to turn off an hour earlier than usual to remind you to get up and move, walk around when you’re on the phone, stand up and do some ironing during your favorite television shows, rather than sitting down to read, listen to recorded books while you walk, clean, or work in the garden, stand on public transport, or get off one stop early and walk to your destination.

If you work in an office: stand up while you read emails or reports, move your rubbish bin away from your desk so you have to get up to throw anything away, use the speaker phone for conference calls and walk around the room during the calls.