Health risks from smoking parallels extended sitting.
So says the San Francisco CBS
Smoking cigarettes is the cause of so much preventable, deadly disease. But now new research shows sitting for long stretches of time may be just as dangerous.
“Smoking certainly is a major cardiovascular risk factor and sitting can be equivalent in many cases,” explained Dr. David Coven, cardiologist with St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York.
Dr. Coven said several new studies show prolonged sitting is now being linked to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and even early death.
Each of our action seems to be wrong. So what’s next? Regulate our seating hours? Ban sitting in public places like the current anti-smoking ban drive in Metro Manila?
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The implication is that government should get out of healthcare, or at most have the minimum presence and support. People love to inflict various lifestyle diseases on their body, over-drinking, over-smoking, over-eating, over-sitting, etc.
BIG govt of Singapore forces fat and obese children to run and jog so they will lose fat. They also call parents of fat children to change the child's habit. Such micro management of healthcare is lousy.
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