Is long sitting easy to get diabetes?
Modern office workers are busy and often spend the day sitting in front of the computer. Long term sitting posture may become an incentive to affect people's health and induce some diseases. So, is sedentary easy to get diabetes?
A US study found that if people sit silently for more than 6 hours a day, the risk of diabetes will increase significantly. This is because of the serious lack of exercise, the excess energy in the body will accumulate in the form of fat under the skin, between muscle cells and around the internal organs. Too much fat will make the cells in these parts lose the function of insulin receptor, insulin will not play a role in the body, and blood glucose will gradually rise. The risk factors for diabetes include age over 45 years old, overweight or obese, abdominal obesity, family history, cardiovascular disease (three higher), and average sitting time over 6 hours per day.
Therefore, to prevent diabetes, proper exercise is indispensable. Office workers spend 3-5 minutes stretching their limbs every 1-2 hours. Some sports can be added after coming home from work, such as jogging, walking, yoga, etc. Office workers should control the intake of high calories and sugar, because if they don't pay attention and work for a long time, office workers are more likely to cause various diseases.
In addition, sedentary will also cause constipation, because when sitting, the motor function of the intestinal tract will be weakened, which will dry the substances in the intestinal tract, resulting in difficult defecation. Sedentary can also cause blood clots, such as deep venous thrombosis, because sedentary will produce greater pressure on the veins of the legs and feet, which will reduce blood circulation. When sitting for a long time, the neck, shoulder and waist back continue to adhere to the fixed posture, and the intervertebral disc and interspinous ligament are in a serious stalemate for a long time, which will lead to the stiffness, acid swelling and pain of the neck, shoulder and waist back, especially the improper sitting posture (such as the spine continues to bend forward), which is also easy to accelerate the formation of hunchback and lead to hyperosteogeny. Because the long-term weight-bearing of pelvis and sacroiliac joint will affect the blood circulation of abdomen and lower limbs, and it is also easy to cause varicose veins of lower limbs.