Sitting too long is dangerous for health

In 2009 , 75% of French workers were employed in the tertiary sector, according to INSEE. Of these 25.6 million people , there is a safe bet that the vast majority spends his day in an office in front of a computer ... There is little doubt that sitting all day is not good for health, but what , exactly?

Using four experts, the Washington Post explains everything in an orderly computer graphics, which is the inventory of harm to the body of the sitting ( "sitting disease" ), more obvious, such as back pain , the more worrying as colon cancer.

Thus we learn that sitting eight hours a day - the average for an American adult, the daily notes - causes pain " head to toe" . Small passage review Tempting heart disease and pancreatic degeneration of muscles, circulation problems, and even ... slower brain seated because " everything slows down !"


In 2010, a study by the American Cancer Society sounded the alarm bells , saying that the mortality rate of a person sitting more than six hours per day was 20% higher than that of a person sitting just three hours per day.