New Delhi. Are you also looking for a seat to sit in your home, office or any other place? Are you one of those people who don’t like standing at all? If yes, then you must see this report of ours. Be it an empty seat in the train or bus or an expensive comfortable chair in your office or home, all these are becoming a big danger for you and this has come to light in an international research study.

Risk of diseases due to sitting for too long

You will leave your chair and stand up after listening to the things that have come to light in an international research study of Simon Fraser University. This news is for those people who spend most of their time sitting throughout the day. Recently an international research report has come out which shows how sitting for too long can be a big threat to our lives.

After a long study conducted for 11 years (January 1, 2003 to August 31, 2021) on 1,05,677 people from 21 countries of the world, it has been revealed that people who spend most of their time sitting throughout the day have a higher risk of mortality and heart diseases than normal people. After studying the people involved in the research, it was found that people who sat for 8 or more hours per day were at greater risk to their lives. Also, the risk of many heart diseases (cardio vascular diseases) like Myocardial infarction, Stroke, or Heart Failure was felt to be higher by 17% to 50%.

Results revealed in case study

21 year old Sarthak Pandit, living in Colaba, Mumbai, is a young student who is currently preparing for the Civil Services Examination. Sarthak tells that to study, he sits continuously for 12 to 13 hours every day and when his studies are over, he again sits with his brother and friends with his mobile phone for hours. By doing this daily, they feel back pain, fatigue and headache for a long time. On meeting the doctor, the doctor cautioned Sarthak and advised him to avoid sitting continuously.

After this research study came out, we talked to the health expert, Dr. Gautam Bhansal, who is a physician in a renowned hospital in Mumbai, justified this research study and said that sitting for a long time has major side effects on many parts of our body, which gives rise to many types of diseases.

The doctor gave this advice

Dr. Gautam says that we count the diseases caused by sitting for a long time as sedentary problems, many people associated with the corporate world are affected by such diseases. If he doesn’t pay attention, he goes straight to the hospital. Doctor Gautam says that our body is not naturally made to sit, hence sitting for a long time has more adverse effects. As age increases, the ill effects of sitting also increase.

Doctors say that these problems are more common in men than in women. To avoid problems, the doctor advised to hold meetings while standing instead of sitting, talk on the phone while standing, all this improves blood circulation and keeps the heart and mind healthy.

Doing yoga will also be effective

Modern science has its own side and treatment regarding this study. To diagnose the problems caused by sitting, we also talked to yoga experts and wanted to know whether there is a cure for such diseases in yoga too? With this question, we reached out to yoga instructor Ameesha Shah who told us that yoga has the cure for all types of diseases.

Yoga guru Ameesha told that there are many yoga asanas which we can do while sitting and it can provide relief from the effects on the body. These asanas include Gaumukh Asana, Manduka Asana, Pawanmukt Asana, Anulom Vilom, Diaphragmatic Breathing. Yoga guru Ameesha tells that many people come to her complaining of problems caused by sitting and she has also treated many such people through yoga.