Sitting for your spine is like sugar to your teeth

Sitting for your spine is like sugar to your teeth - It’s bad news!

Did you know:

• 12 hours is the amount of time the average person is sitting (aka sedentary) a day.
• 4th Leading risk factor for global mortality is physical activity
• 3.2. million deaths a year are related to physical inactivity
• Even if you engage recommended 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity per week, you are still subject to the negative impact of too much sitting.

The risks of prolonged sitting increases your chances of:

• Low back pain and herniated discs
• Cardiovascular disease
• Colon cancer
• Type 2 diabetes
• High cholesterol
• Obesity
• Low blood circulation
• Mortality

Find out how much of your time you spend sitting with this sitting calculator.

Whether it's time spent working (in the office, school or home), driving, eating or watching TV, the impacts of our sedentary lifestyles, often referred to as "sitting disease," may be one of the most unanticipated health threats of our modern time.

Want to Sit Less and Move More - Join me in my free Facebook group for our Stand up, Sit down Challenge!

References:
https://www.juststand.org/the-facts/ 
https://media.ergotron.com/reserved/resources/standingupforworkplacewellness-orig.pdf 
Enjoy Moving and Feel Fabulous by Gila Archer