The Silent Health Risk You’re Overlooking #shorts #WorkLifeBalance #Fitness #Wellness #HealthyHabits

Those who sit for eight hours or more have almost the same level of risk as obesity or smoking. Now imagine if you are also overweight and sleeping less. Think about the effects of what we are doing. We're spending all our time working, hustling for wealth or worth or meaning. But we are paying a huge price that's going to come back in our later years in form of all these chronic ailments that we're going to suffer with. To tell you how fast and how extreme the effects of sitting are on our body, we know that our metabolism, even with 20 minutes of sitting, slows down. Our bodies know that we are in this slower metabolism, relaxed state. So literally, our metabolic rates drop by 10, 12% within 20 minutes of sitting. Our ability of the body, as a result, to break down fat goes down. It's a really big issue in our lives today.