Sitting Risks

 How harmful is too much sitting?

What are the risks of sitting too much?

 

Researchers have linked sitting for long periods of time with a number of health concerns, including obesity and metabolic syndrome — a cluster of conditions that includes increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol levels.
Too much sitting also seems to increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease and cancer.
One recent study compared adults who spent less than two hours a day in front of the TV or other screen-based entertainment with those who logged more than four hours a day of recreational screen time. Those with greater screen time had:

• A nearly 50 percent increased risk of death from any cause
• About a 125 percent increased risk of events associated with cardiovascular disease, such as chest pain (angina) or heart attack

The increased risk was separate from other traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as smoking or high blood pressure.

Sitting in front of the TV isn't the only concern. Any extended sitting — such as behind a desk at work or behind the wheel — can be harmful. What's more, spending a few hours a week at the gym or otherwise engaged in moderate or vigorous activity doesn't seem to significantly offset the risk.

Rather, the solution seems to be less sitting and more moving overall. You might start by simply standing rather than sitting whenever you have the chance.

For example:

• Stand while talking on the phone or eating lunch.
• If you work at a desk for long periods of time, try a standing desk — or improvise with a high table or counter.

Better yet, think about ways to walk while you work:

• Walk laps with your colleagues rather than gathering in a conference room for meetings.
• Position your work surface above a treadmill — with a computer screen and keyboard on a stand or a specialized treadmill-ready vertical desk — so that you can be in motion throughout the day.

The impact of movement — even leisurely movement — can be profound. For starters, you'll burn more calories. This might lead to weight loss and increased energy.

Even better, the muscle activity needed for standing and other movement seems to trigger important processes related to the breakdown of fats and sugars within the body. When you sit, these processes stall — and your health risks increase. When you're standing or actively moving, you kick the processes back into action.

Ways to make Life Simple

Can my life be simple again, yes!

Here are the steps you need to take.,

When we were young life was easier, right?  I know, sometimes it seems that way.  But the truth is,  life is still easy.  It always will be.  The only difference is we’re older, and the older we get, the more we complicate things for ourselves.

You see, when we were young we saw the world through simple, hopeful eyes.  We knew what we wanted and we had no biases or concealed agendas.  We liked people who smiled.  We avoided people who frowned.  We ate when we were hungry, drank when we were thirsty, and slept when we were tired.

As we grew older our minds became gradually disillusioned by negative external influences.  At some point we began to hesitate and question our instincts.  When a new obstacle or growing pain arose, we stumbled and  fell down.  This happened several times.  Eventually, we decided we didn’t want to fall again, but rather than solving the problem that caused us to fall, we avoided it all together.

As a result, we ate comfort food and drank alcohol to numb our wounds and fill our voids.  We worked late nights on purpose to avoid unresolved conflicts at home.  We started holding grudges, playing mind games, and subtly deceiving others and ourselves to get ahead.  And when it didn’t work out, we lived above our means, bought things we didn’t need, and ate and drank some more just to make ourselves feel better again.

Over the course of time, we made our lives more and more difficult, and we started losing touch with who we really are and what we really need.

To make life easy and simple again, here are 52 ways to do just that:

1.    Don’t try to read other people’s minds.  Don’t make other people try to read yours.  Communicate.

2.    Be polite, but don’t try to be friends with everyone around you.  Instead, spend time nurturing your relationships with the people who matter most to you.

3.   Live below your means.  Don’t buy stuff you don’t need.  Always sleep on big purchases.  Create a budget and savings plan and stick to both of them.

4.   Get enough sleep every night.  An exhausted mind is rarely productive.

5.    Get up 30 minutes earlier so you don’t have to rush around like a mad man.  That 30 minutes will help you avoid speeding tickets, tardiness, and other unnecessary headaches.

6.   Get off your high horse, talk it out, shake hands or hug, and move on.

7.   Don’t waste your time on jealously.  The only person you’re competing against is yourself.

8.   Surround yourself with people who fill your gaps.  Let them do the stuff they’re better at so you can do the stuff you’re better at.

9.   Organize your living space and working space. 

10.                 Get rid of stuff you don’t use.

11.Ask someone if you aren’t sure.

12.                  Spend a little time now learning a time-saving trick or shortcut that you can use over and over again in the future.

13.                  Don’t try to please everyone.  Just do what you know is right.

14.                 Don’t drink alcohol or consume recreational drugs when you’re mad or sad.  Take a jog instead.

15.                  Be sure to pay your bills on time.

16.                  Fill up your gas tank on the way home, not in the morning when you’re in a hurry.

17.                  Use technology to automate tasks.

18.                  Handle important two-minute tasks immediately.

19.                  Relocate closer to your place of employment.

20.                 Do not take what does not belong to you (Do not steal)

21.                  Always be honest with yourself and others.

22.                 Say “I love you” to your loved ones as often as possible.

23.                 Single-task.  Do one thing at a time and give it all you got.

24.                 Finish one project before you start another.

25.                 Be yourself.

26.                 When traveling, pack light.  Don’t bring it unless you absolutely must.

27.                 Clean up after yourself.  Don’t put it off until later.

28.                 Learn to cook, and cook.

29.                 Make a weekly (healthy) menu, and shop for only the items you need.

30.                 Consider buying and cooking food in bulk.  If you make a large portion of something on Sunday, you can eat leftovers several times during the week without spending more time cooking.

31.                  Stay out of other people’s drama.  And don’t needlessly create your own.

32.                 Buy things with cash.

33.                 Maintain your car, home, and other personal belongings you rely on.

34.                 Smile often, even to complete strangers.

35.                 If you hate doing it, stop it.

36.                 Treat everyone with the same level of respect you would give to your grandfather and the same level of patience you would have with your baby brother.

37.                 Apologize when you should.

38.                 Write things down.

39.                 Be curious.  Don’t be scared to learn something new.

40.   However good or bad a situation is now, it will change.  Accept this simple fact.

41. Let go of things you can’t change.  Concentrate on things you can.
42. Find hard work you actually enjoy doing.
43. Realize that the harder you work, the luckier you will become.
44. Follow your heart.  Don’t waste your life fulfilling someone else’s dreams and desires.
45. Set priorities for yourself and act accordingly.
46. Take it slow and add up all your small victories.
47. However good or bad a situation is now, it will change.  Accept this simple fact.
48. Excel at what you do.  Otherwise you’ll just frustrate yourself.
49. Mature, but don’t grow up too fast.
50. Realize that you’re never quite as right as you think you are.
51. Build something or do something that makes you proud.
52. Make mistakes, learn from them, laugh about them, and move along.

inspirational quote about life

QUOTES: In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

— Robert Frost

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

— Elbert Hubbard

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

— Oscar Wild

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

— Martin Luther King Jr

If you don’t learn something before you sleep today, you don’t do much today. Do something useful today for the better tomorow

When you have right attitude, you can learn anything. When you can learn anything, you can do anything.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Failure doesn't mean that we are off the track to success. It merely forces us to take a detour to success. -Unknown.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson