2023-06-21 16:46:03
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 60% of the world’s population does not perform enough physical activity, producing what is called a sedentary lifestyle. And in Argentina, according to the fourth national survey of Risk Factors of the Ministry of Health, published in 2019, a sedentary lifestyle affects six out of 10 people.
In this context, there is a trend that has been talked regarding and has a lot of impact on modern life: it is regarding “sitting time” (translated into Spanish, “the time to be seated”) and the consequences it generates on health .
According to Dr. Jorge Franchella, sports specialist, cardiologist, and director of the Physical Activity Program at the Hospital de Clínicas of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), it is already more than a slogan. It is a prevention diagnosis that was studied in 1996 by the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Sports Medicine.
Jorge Franchella, sports specialist, cardiologist, and director of the Physical Activity Program at the Hospital de Clínicas of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), a scholar of the subject and prevention. (Gentleness)
At that time they realized that they had to do at least 150 minutes of physical activity a week. But – Francella recounted – that much earlier (in the 70’s) doctors met and warned regarding non-contagious diseases that produced risk factors. To prevent them, it was necessary to educate people.
One of the tools to prevent these diseases is physical activity- he said.
To reduce sedentary lifestyle, the 150 weekly minutes went to 300. “If you do 30 minutes of daily activity, you reduce the risk of getting sick by 30%, but what do you do in the remaining 23 hours? If in addition to sleeping, in the rest of the hours you are sitting all the time, it is also bad for your health. That is where the concept of sitting time was born”.
Another of the risk data provided by the doctor is that if a person remains seated between 12 and 13 hours or for periods of more than 90 minutes, even if they have slept for a few hours, they also generate health risk factors.
At the same time, he stated that the sitting time trend is comparable to diseases derived from cigarette consumption.
Sedentary lifestyle
A sedentary lifestyle defines the attitude and is a lifestyle, remarked Francella. “He is guilty of some diseases because people have no way of channeling what reality bombards. In modern life it becomes aggressive because we have no outlet. Being sedentary is a process,” she highlighted.
At the same time, he stressed that “we live a very particular life in that, if we like it we are happy if we don’t like it we sink. Being sedentary is getting out of an attitude and it’s a gradual process,” she said.
For this reason, it is nice to be physically active, but “what I want is for the person to start in a way that is happy.”
To do
Move to get out of sedentary lifestyle. (File / LaVoz)
To avoid “setting time”, Franchella suggests taking active breaks: if you are sitting you have to get up every 90 minutes, move a little, walk and just sit down once more. “The other option is to allow workplaces to have all employees stand at the same time so everyone is happy,” she remarked.
In addition, he stated that it is a risk to incorporate into your health a factor that conditions something. For example: it is likely that there is a greater tendency to be obese, to have higher blood pressure. “These are habits that are conditioned by work and you have to be aware of it,” she said.
At the same time, he clarified that there are international studies that document that people who sit for so long have a higher risk of getting sick.
In the world there is a 70% sedentary lifestyle
In most countries, there is between 60 and 70 percent sedentary lifestyle. One of the consequences is technology that doesn’t help much to move around- Francella stated.
“Today with a cell phone you order food, with a remote control you change the television channels. Technological advances reduce the need for us to move ”, she highlighted.
And he said that in Argentina “we are more active.” At the same time, he reported that in Córdoba or another city smaller than Buenos Aires, “we see that they use the car a lot because they know they can find parking very close to where they are going.”
He also expressed that field activities are replaced with automatic technological tools.
Therefore, he believes that plans should be made for people to move. In the country there is a program called “Exercise is medicine”. It is directed by Francella and belongs to the American College of Sports Medicine, which promotes physical activity in the population.
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