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While we aren't replacing our saved energy with a different activity, in the past 70 years, hard and manual labor, which required toil and sweat, has been replaced by desk jobs, leading to sedentary lifestyles.
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Exercise is a movement of the body to enhance physical fitness.
Most people know that exercise is important for the physical development of the self, yet a majority of them are skipping exercise often.
Historic evidence suggests that for many thousands of years, human beings were more active and stronger than today.
The early humans had increased movement and activity, like going for long and tiring hunts, walking long distances that took weeks, making the prehistoric humans fitter than the best athletes today.
Technological breakthroughs have reduced our activity to a great extent ( vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, self-cleaning ovens, and even cars).
The rise of the internet gave us a whole lot of technology, curbing our need to move even more.
Sedentary lifestyle diseases like heart disease/strokes and diabetes are the leading cause of death in the world, according to the World Health Organization.
The way to change this sedentary epidemic:
- Exercise and be active all day, not just for an hour a day.
- Rethink your working style.
- Limit the number of sitting hours.
- Make it a habit to eat right.
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- Pick a regular (sedentary) part of your routine and switch it out for an active choice: Instead of the elevator, take the stairs;
- Commit to movement after the most frustrating, stressful part of your week: after a weekly meeting or work task;
- Work out while you watch TV: you get to indulge the part of your brain that's telling you to lie down on the couch while actually circumnavigating laziness.
- How much we move is connected to how much we eat. And exercise, of course, has a way of making us hungry — so hungry that we might consume more calories than we burned off.
- Some people simply slow down after a workout, using less energy on their non-gym activities, because they're tired.
- remove chairs and desk seating
- encourage walking meetings
- create walking tracks
- introduce a pedometer program
- use mobile sets instead of traditional phones
- introduce games to the workplace
- offer activity monitors
- advise employees on activity and nutrition
- add desks with movement interventions, such as treadmills
- sit on bounce balls.