Introduction: Whether it is "desk work" or "sit down to enjoy", should be active from time to time, stretch muscles and bones, can avoid the obstacles of the circulation, is a good habit to keep fit.
Ancient and modern gleanings: the ancient works HuangDi Neijing·Su-wen·Xuanming Wu Qi Lun(The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon) puts forward in the section titled "five labor injuries": "long sight hurts blood, long lying hurts Qi, long sitting hurts flesh, long-standing hurts bone, and long walking hurts muscle." The ancient folks saying "dressmaker take needle and thread, spit blood in heart for exhaustion from sewing.", which means sitting for a long time hurts the flesh. And the solution is "move around and enduring", in movement the vital energy and blood can flow all over the body, make the muscles of the whole body, especially the muscles of the limbs get sustained.
Don't burn the planks.
Modern people go to work has become "sitting" work. Most spent the rest of the time sitting down except for meals and commuting. They don't know that this is not "sitting back", but "sitting for aging". A person's lifestyle 20 years ago will determine their health 20 years later, according to the British journal nature, in the 10 years, there will be 388 million people die of chronic disease caused by bad life habits, and burn the planks or sitting for long time is regarded by WHO as one of the ten top pathogenic reasons for fatal disease. Sitting kills more than two million people worldwide each year. Adults were 60 to 85 percent more likely to be sedentary or inactive.
First, have the right posture. "Upright sitting" is a healthy sitting posture advocated by the ancients, which can prevent the lumbosacral ligament and muscles from being pulled excessively and keep the lumbar spine and even the whole spine upright. When sitting chair works, should pull chair edge toward the table, in "upright sit" on the foundation, as far as possible the lumbar back is the clingy and lean back of the chair, when sitting, should make knee is above hip level position, reduce the pressure of rachis. Still, can put a discretion below the chair appropriate footboard, when sitting for a long time, avoid rising suddenly. The chair that sits for a long time should have armrest, it is optimal lean on the chair back the chair that the waist can get support.
Unfavorable sit on too-soft sofa, rise for activity every sit about 45 minutes or so. Stretch your waist, turn your head, circle your shoulders, lean forward, lean back, turn left and right, stand on tiptoe, and breathe some fresh air. You can brew yourself a cup of barley tea that will nourish your stomach, strengthen your spleen and aid digestion. The amount of water is not too much so that after a while, you can just get up to pour water and move your body by the way.
Don't burn the planks:Health benefits.
✵1. Prevent blood stasis: sitting for a long time causes stagnation of Qi of the spleen, resulting in indigestion, then abdominal distension, loss of appetite, less and lazy speech, but also cause muscle pain, stiffness, atrophy, and weakness. Anal canal vein is easy to appear to dilate and suffer from hemorrhoid, produce anal ache, bleed even hematocheal so on, or lead to anemia for a long period. Sitting for too long reduces heart function and blood circulation, which can lead to high blood pressure, coronary artery embolization and other diseases. Hands and legs can become swollen and painful from sitting for a long time due to excessive congestion and varicose veins. Sitting for a long time causes a lack of blood in the chest, aggravating heart disease and lung diseases such as emphysema infection in the elderly.
✵2. Bone injury prevention: in human bones, only through movement can the joints produce a kind of mucus to prevent the bones from wearing each other. In sedentary people, the bone joints fail to produce the mucus and become dry, which can lead to arthritis and spondylosis. Sedentary can cause the cervical vertebra to turn stiff, affect vertebra artery to supply blood to the head, make the normal physiology bend of the human body is destroyed, appear arch back or bone hyperplasia.
✵3. Avoid obesity: an enzyme responsible for burning fat stops being secreted when people are sitting, so sitting for long periods can lead to weight gain, you will probably have "small belly" or "elephant legs". And if you don't exercise for a long time, the fat will build up in your gut, forming "dangerous fat."
✵4. Prevent infertility: sitting posture and holding back urine for a long time will cause great harm to the male prostate gland, which can cause high temperature and venous blood reflux to the testicles and harm the spermatogenic function of testicles. Still, it can let a woman suffer from hemorrhoid, chronic pelvic congestion, dysmenorrhea, endocrine disorders, and due to Qi stagnation and blood stasis lead to lymph or bloodline embolism, so that tubal obstruction, endometriosis, causing infertility.
✵5. Protect your brain against aging: a British study found that people who spend a lot of time sitting tend to age 10 years older than those who exercise. Sitting for a long time can lead to psychological depression, anger, poor mental state, gradually reduce interest in the outside world until no interest. It can also reduce blood flow to the brain, reduce oxygen and nutrients to the brain, aggravate fatigue, insomnia, memory loss and increase the likelihood of Alzheimer's disease.
✵Tips: office worker who sits for a long time can choose massage lumbar cushion, cushion suitable for oneself, give oneself lumbar a few massages and support.
Introduction: Whether it is "desk work" or "sit down to enjoy", should be active from time to time, stretch muscles and bones, can avoid the obstacles of the circulation, is a good habit to keep fit.
Modern people go to work has become "sitting" work. Most spent the rest of the time sitting down except for meals and commuting. They don't know that this is not "sitting back", but "sitting for aging". A person's lifestyle 20 years ago will determine their health 20 years later, according to the British journal nature, in the 10 years, there will be 388 million people die of chronic disease caused by bad life habits, and burn the planks or sitting for long time is regarded by WHO as one of the ten top pathogenic reasons for fatal disease. Sitting kills more than two million people worldwide each year. Adults were 60 to 85 percent more likely to be sedentary or inactive.
First, have the right posture. "Upright sitting" is a healthy sitting posture advocated by the ancients, which can prevent the lumbosacral ligament and muscles from being pulled excessively and keep the lumbar spine and even the whole spine upright. When sitting chair works, should pull chair edge toward the table, in "upright sit" on the foundation, as far as possible the lumbar back is the clingy and lean back of the chair, when sitting, should make knee is above hip level position, reduce the pressure of rachis. Still, can put a discretion below the chair appropriate footboard, when sitting for a long time, avoid rising suddenly. The chair that sits for a long time should have armrest, it is optimal lean on the chair back the chair that the waist can get support.
Unfavorable sit on too-soft sofa, rise for activity every sit about 45 minutes or so. Stretch your waist, turn your head, circle your shoulders, lean forward, lean back, turn left and right, stand on tiptoe, and breathe some fresh air. You can brew yourself a cup of barley tea that will nourish your stomach, strengthen your spleen and aid digestion. The amount of water is not too much so that after a while, you can just get up to pour water and move your body by the way.
✵1. Prevent blood stasis: sitting for a long time causes stagnation of Qi of the spleen, resulting in indigestion, then abdominal distension, loss of appetite, less and lazy speech, but also cause muscle pain, stiffness, atrophy, and weakness. Anal canal vein is easy to appear to dilate and suffer from hemorrhoid, produce anal ache, bleed even hematocheal so on, or lead to anemia for a long period. Sitting for too long reduces heart function and blood circulation, which can lead to high blood pressure, coronary artery embolization and other diseases. Hands and legs can become swollen and painful from sitting for a long time due to excessive congestion and varicose veins. Sitting for a long time causes a lack of blood in the chest, aggravating heart disease and lung diseases such as emphysema infection in the elderly.
✵2. Bone injury prevention: in human bones, only through movement can the joints produce a kind of mucus to prevent the bones from wearing each other. In sedentary people, the bone joints fail to produce the mucus and become dry, which can lead to arthritis and spondylosis. Sedentary can cause the cervical vertebra to turn stiff, affect vertebra artery to supply blood to the head, make the normal physiology bend of the human body is destroyed, appear arch back or bone hyperplasia.
✵3. Avoid obesity: an enzyme responsible for burning fat stops being secreted when people are sitting, so sitting for long periods can lead to weight gain, you will probably have "small belly" or "elephant legs". And if you don't exercise for a long time, the fat will build up in your gut, forming "dangerous fat."
✵5. Protect your brain against aging: a British study found that people who spend a lot of time sitting tend to age 10 years older than those who exercise. Sitting for a long time can lead to psychological depression, anger, poor mental state, gradually reduce interest in the outside world until no interest. It can also reduce blood flow to the brain, reduce oxygen and nutrients to the brain, aggravate fatigue, insomnia, memory loss and increase the likelihood of Alzheimer's disease.
