Sitting Is Killing You
Via: Medical Billing And Coding
My Two Cents
Although I think they are going to extremes a bit with this infographic here. I think they are mis interpreting the data to some degree. I mean, hypothetically you could do research and ask everyone that has had or is currently dealing with cancer if they eat chocolate. I’m pretty sure a REALLY high percentage will say yes. So then with that data you could very easily deduce that chocolate causes cancer.
Realistically I feel it is overly obvious that sitting less will be good for our body, but the whole, “Each extra hour of watching TV = 11% higher death risk.” is a bit extreme. This is assuming that we are going to die because of health reasons. More-so that we will die from heart complications. In reality there are countless ways to die, the majority of which most likely have nothing at all to do with a person sitting. We are all actually increasing our likely hood to die just by waking up in the morning and living another day. Each and everyday we get closer and closer to the day we die. Death is not something anyone is able to stop from happening. So it shouldn’t be about how can we prevent death, but rather how can we embrace the time we are allotted, and use that time in positive ways to make us better people. I feel as long as we spend our life helping other people, and loving instead of hating then it doesn’t really matter how long we live. Death is but a stepping stone to the next phase of our eternal existence.
Really I posted this infographic because, I thought it was creatively executed, and the information is fairly interesting. I think it is also quite motivating, and I definitely agree that we are better off standing and moving as opposed to sitting.
