Dec 11
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Can Your Butt Get Bigger by Sitting?
If you sit more than you stand, the answer is yes.
Researchers have found that when people sit all day, their buttocks cells enlarge and form fat droplets. The longer you sit, the more the cells stretch and produce bigger fat droplets.
Even if you come to boot camp or are working out with a trainer, most likely it is, at the most, for 1 hour/day, 3 to 5 days/week. But the other hours in the week are important too. Working out is not a pass for being able to sit on your butt for the rest of the workday or on the weekend.
The fact is, prolonged sitting can even negate some of the positive effects that exercise provides.
The American Cancer Society has recently published the results of a survey of how prolonged sitting outside of work affected mortality rates. Participants had no history of major health issues and were studied over a 13-year period. Mortality rates of men and women who sat more than 6 hours/ day were found to be higher during the study period who sat fewer than 3 hours/day.
New studies from the American College of Cardiology show that prolonged sitting is now being linked to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer and even early death.
So what do you do? Get off your butt. Get up from your chair any chance you get and walk around. Whenever you get the blood pumping and moving, it stimulates the organs to do things that are healthy.
Keep moving and stay healthy.
