Gone are the days of smoke filled boardrooms, bars and restaurants.  Our lungs are eternally thankful.

Here are the days of work and play endlessly tied to the computer, tablet or phone screen.  Our backs are hangry (pronounced hang-gree | a state of anger and irritability resulting from being hungry)  and movement is the nutrition our bodies crave.

The human body did not evolve for the purpose of a sedentary lifestyle.  We were made to move.  The average american sits for 10 hours a day!!  That’s way too much time slumped at our computers, desks, couches and cars.  Living with such minimal full body movement is linked to 36 different chronic conditions.  Serious issues like diabetes, obesity, neck and back pain, heart disease, depression and even cancer.

Let’s look at the science and evidence-based research that should be enough to intellectually lead us all to re-evaluate our habits and take action.

SITTING AND SERIOUS ILLNESS.

1 in 3 adults in the US do not engage in any physical activity in their free time.  Lack of physical activity accounts for 22% of coronary heart disease, 22% of colon cancer, 18% of osteoporotic fractures, 12% of diabetes and hypertension, and 5% of breast cancer. -Science Daily

SITTING COST MONEY

At least 100 million Americans live with chronic pain, with the resulting treatments and productivity loss costing and estimated $635 billion. -Harvard

We fount that the annual cost of pain was greater than the annual costs in 2010 dollars of heart disease ($309 billion), cancer ($243 billion), and diabetes ($188 billion) and nearly 30 percent higher than the combined cost of cancer and diabetes. -National Institute of Health

SITTING STIFLES YOUR SUCCESS

In the US, 7.6 million people list back pain as their reason for filing disability claims.  -Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

SITTING COMPROMISES YOUR BOTTOM LINE

 

 

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