But the longer you sit, the more uneasy your body becomes. Your body will count down while you are sitting until you stand up again and take two steps with your body.
This sounds ridiculous.
Our bodies like to sit, don't they?
That's not true.
Indeed, a short period of meditation will help us recover from nervous mood or recover our strength after exercise.
But now, our lifestyle makes us sit much longer than our activities, but our bodies are not just made for sedentary.
On the contrary, the human body is made for exercise. You can find evidence from the way the human body is structured.
We have more than 360 joints and about 700 skeletal muscles, which enables us to do all kinds of movements easily and smoothly.
The unique structure of the human body enables us to stand upright between heaven and earth against gravity. Our blood needs exercise to circulate normally.
And our skin is elastic and will change with our actions.
So every inch of our body is ready, looking forward to your exercise, but what will happen to our body if you just don't move?
Look at the spine first.
Your spine is a long structure with bones and cartilage interlaced inside.
Joints, muscles and ligaments attached to bones bind them tightly together.
The most common sitting posture is the bent back and the shoulders where you stay. This posture often produces uneven pressure on your spine.
Over time, it will wear out your lumbar intervertebral disc, some joints and muscles are overworked, and the muscles are nervous to meet the curved back.
Colleagues sitting hunched will also reduce the space in your chest, which means that there is not enough room for your lungs to relax when you breathe.
This creates a problem because it temporarily limits the amount of oxygen that fills the lungs and filters into the blood.
Skeleton is surrounded by muscles, nerves, arteries and veins, forming the soft tissue layer of human body.
This sitting posture puts pressure on the body all the time, and these finer tissues really feel the impact.
After sitting for a long time, do you feel bloated or numb in your limbs? This is because your nerves, arteries and blood vessels will slowly block up in those parts that are squeezed the most.
This hinders the transmission of nerve signals and leads to numbness. And this blockage slows down the blood flow of your limbs and makes your limbs swell.
At the same time, sitting for a long time will lead to the temporary failure of lipoprotein lipase, a special enzyme existing in capillaries, which will reduce the fat content in blood.
So when you sit, you are probably sitting and thinking, but ironically, sitting for a long time makes you run counter to your original intention.
Sitting still, blood flow slows down, and oxygen entering the blood through the lungs decreases.
Your brain needs all these things to stay sharp.
As your brain activity slows down, your attention is likely to decrease.
Coincidentally, this adverse effect will not happen in the short term.
Recent studies have found that sitting for a long time has a special connection with some cancers and heart diseases, which may lead to diabetes and kidney and liver diseases.
In fact, the researchers found that in the cases of premature death in the world every year, inactivity accounts for 9% of the causes of death, with a total of more than 500,000 people.
This seemingly harmless habit actually affects our ability to keep healthy.
Fortunately, the solution to this threat is simple.
When you can only sit, try to hold your head high. Don't say anything when you don't need to tie it to your seat. Try to walk around and exercise.
Or you can set yourself a reminder to get up every half hour.
More often, we should be grateful that the human body is born for exercise, not for silence.