Is sitting harmful for our health?

Yes, I need to move a lot more, whether it's walking or swimming or dancing or whatever. Now, that the weather is nicer, it should be easier to do. Now, when I take the bus, I'll try to stand instead of sitting and strengthen my leg muscles.

@just4him I understand! I have a couple of friends that have had that operation. One, I a couple of years ago and is doing great. One, very recently and is presently recovering.

@1hopefulman Sounds like a good plan. I'm going to be having knee replacement surgery on both knees soon, standing for any length of time is not an option at the moment.

We overdo everything, don't we? I know people that watch TV all day and only take a break when they need to go to the bathroom or eat and then they sit there too!

@marguicha That's true! I want to stay healthy as long as possible and so will stand and walk and exercise a bit more in the days ahead especially now with the summer weather. I have spend too much time already visiting doctors and hospital visits. My dad didn't smoke much and he lived over 100. He was always walking and working hard and spent a lot of time working in the garden after he retired. Television was not for him.

@1hopefulman Be happy to be capably of doing all that. I cannot.

Yes, too many of us are sitting way too much, including me. Need to make some changes. Sleep well!

@Nawsheen We have to include some sort of movement into our daily routine. If we think about it, we will do it. When I will sit down to work on the computer, from now on, I will stand up on the half hour and walk around for a few minutes from now on.

Imagine sitting 10 hours a day? Then we sleep 8 hours. Not much exercise there?

@1hopefulman unfortunately nowadays many people don't have the time to do exercises. And yes many people prefer junk food over homemade food

I usually eat all my meals standing up at the kitchen counter as of late. No table to wash.

@LadyDuck That's fine! But I live alone and retired and so I'm always relaxing.

@1hopefulman Eating while standing means not taking time to eat slowly, this is not very good. I like to sit down and take the time to talk with my husband while we eat. It's a moment of relax.

Oh my! A flat butt? Who wants that? Glad you made positive changes! As soon as I finish here, I will go for a nice walk.

@1hopefulman In fact I still do exercises. I won't go to the gym to do it. I can ride a bike to go to work and go home. Since I had a surgerly lately, so I don't ride a bike these days. I go to work and go home on foot instead.

The truth is that most of us don't have a healthy diet and we don't do enough movement. We eat bad food and sit too much. So let's do less sitting and more walking!

@youless Fantastic! I'm a believer that walking is one of the best exercises for our body.

It makes sense to do some exercise and not sit all the time.

Way, way too much! We gotta get up and stand and walk a bit more!

@sol_cee I'll be going out for a walk a little later and now I'm going to eat some fruits and vegetables. No white sugar for me!

@1hopefulman Lead the way sir!

Time to get up and moving again!

Sitting when we eat, sitting when we watch television, sitting at our computer, sitting in school, sitting when socializing, etc. Are we sitting our lives away?

Great! How many hours a day do you think you sit?

@Deepizzaguy I'm going to try to cut down on my sitting. I'm going to look and try to get a desk that is high enough so that I could stand when I'm on the internet which is more hours than I should. Today I did a lot of walking and exercise but I should do that every day.

@1hopefulman I say about 9 or 10 hours.

I don't know if they live shorter lives. However, I feel very bad for anyone that deals with that health challenge. Maybe the words in this Bible verse will encourage them. Isaiah 35:6 (Amplified Bible) "6 Then the lame will leap like a deer, And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy. For waters will break forth in the wilderness And streams in the desert."