Sitting for more than six hours a day can increase a person’s risk of premature death

A new study has found that spending too much sedentary time each day can lead to premature death.

Researchers at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, found that people who spend most of their day sitting down are more likely to develop or die from cardiovascular disease.

Researchers warn that the amount of time people spend sedentary around the world has increased in recent years, largely due to the increasing availability of technologies like computers and smartphones.

A sedentary lifestyle is responsible for many health problems worldwide, including increasing trends in obesity and diabetes in the United States and Europe.

The study found that people who sat for more than eight hours a day were significantly more likely to develop heart disease during their lifetime.

Publishing their findings Wednesday in JAMA Cardiology, the researchers collected data from 105,000 people in 21 countries over an average of 11 years.

“In addition to increasing physical activity, reducing sedentary time could be an important strategy to alleviate the global burden of premature death and cardiovascular disease,” the research team wrote in the study.

Data were collected about the average time a person spends sitting each day due to work or other life choices.

They compared all-cause mortality and heart disease with sitting less than four hours a day as a criterion.

This group is generally believed to lead a more active lifestyle, but they get little rest during their daily waking hours.

The researchers found that those who sat for about four to six hours a day were actually slightly less likely to develop heart disease and had an equal death rate from all causes.

However, people who spend more than that time sedentary each day face real problems.

In developed countries, those who sit six to eight hours a day have a slightly higher risk of death, and those who sit more than eight hours a day have a ten percent higher risk of death.

However, the risk of death does indeed increase for people living in developing countries.

A person who sits for six to eight hours a day is 20% more likely to die from any cause, while a person who sits for more than eight hours a day is about 25% more likely to die from all causes.

Similar trends have been seen for heart disease, with people in low-income countries more likely to suffer from the condition than their peers in more developed countries.

However, the researchers do not believe that sitting is the only factor that plays a role here, because it also matters what people do when they are not sitting.

The standard workday in the United States is eight hours, and if they spend all their time sitting, an employee is already reaching a dangerous level of daily inactivity (archive photo)

“An important public health issue in this area is the joint coexistence of sitting and physical activity,” they wrote.

This suggests that reducing sedentary time alone is unlikely to provide optimal health benefits without increasing physical activity. Our findings support current guidelines that promote “sit less and move more” for better health.

Unfortunately, things go wrong when people sit down every day.

According to the Forbes report, more than four out of five jobs in the United States were considered inactive, while the number of non-physical jobs increased by 80 percent between 1950 and 2019.

The average office job, almost always an inactive job in America, takes between 9:00 and 17:00, an eight-hour workday. This doesn’t count towards commuting, so for those who don’t work from home, it’s about an hour round trip.

This means that the workday alone puts a person at more than eight hours, which is considered the greatest risk by researchers.

This no longer includes time spent at home, as many Americans spend their free hours watching television during the day, and in addition to their daily sitting time.

This sedentary lifestyle has already been linked to obesity and diabetes epidemics in America, and heart disease is the number one killer of American residents.