Don't Lose Out, Work Out!

by Rujuta Diwekar

Latest research and evidence in real life points conclusively towards the fact that sitting, or plain inactivity, characterized by lack of muscular contraction, is an independent risk factor to developing lifestyle diseases like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, disc prolapse, hernia, blood pressure, arthritis, cancer and everything in between. Sitting is the new smoking. Just like smoking was and remains an independent risk factor to obesity, heart disease, cancer and everything in between, so is sitting.

It takes as little as 150 minutes of exercise per week to improve blood glucose tolerance, reduce body fat and the risk to all possible lifestyle diseases that come with obesity.