Freedom Writers and Sedentary Lifestyle
As freedom writer’s posts go, this is quite a rapid turnaround for me after my last post Site Building, considering my work rate. But I came across this topic of freedom writers and sedentary lifestyle and it interested me enough to write my own take on it.
It appears that freedom writers and sedentary lifestyle they lead can have devastating effects on their health. More so if the freedom writers in question do not do any form of exercise to counteract the hours spent sitting in the chair!
This is no idle rambling so often produced by said freedom writer, either! It’s actually quite a disturbing thought. Here are some of the not so palatable facts:
- In the US about 300,000 deaths occur every year due to inactivity and poor dietary habits
- 60% of American adults do not engage in recommended amounts of exercise
- Less affluent individuals tend to be less active than affluent individuals
- Disabled people are less likely than people with no disabilities to engage in moderate physical activity
- Women in the US tend to be more sedentary than men
- By the age of 75, approximately 50% of women and 33% of men do no physical activity
- Less active adults are at greater risk of dying of heart disease and developing chronic ailments such as colon cancer, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes
- Nearly 60 million Americans have a form of heart or blood vessel disease
That’s not very pleasant reading!
It has become common knowledge that it is so important to get regular exercis, on a daily basis in order to stave off health problems that can arise from doing too little or no exercise at all. Yet so many people ignore the warnings and carry on doing as little as possible regardless of the consequences.
That, unfortunately also includes many writers and sedentary lifestyles that literally “come with the job.”
Well, I’m not going to preach about what you and I should be doing to avoid the health problems that can occur due to belonging to the writers and sedentary lifestyle group! We already know and no amount of ear bashing will change anything.
The only person who can make that change in my case is, after all, only me.
Lucky for me then that I have two dogs that I walk twice a day and add to that the fact that I live in a very hilly area, so it means walking up and down some pretty steep hills! That is good exercise as it makes me work a lot harder than simply strolling along a flat road. And dogs don’t know the meaning of the word “stroll”either! They want to run everywhere and so its a tug of war all the way.
Exercise should be fun and I can’t think of anything more rewarding than walking the dogs. So despite falling into the category of writers and sedentary lifestyle, I’m getting some exercise daily, but I often wonder if its enough. Better than some.
That’s about it for this freedom writers and sedentary lifestyle post. I hope you’re all getting your daily dose of increased heart rate and limb movement!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Terry,
Since I’m in the fitness niche, I can tell you firsthand most people will not exercise. They view it as ‘work’ and not the health benefits which are many. It’s too bad as our country (the U.S.) is as fat as it’s every been.
Too many super-sized meals and sedentary lifestyles. Not a good combination eh?
You hit it perfect though!
Make it FUN!
Go bike riding with your kids. Garden as a family. Swimming. There are tons of different forms of exercise which is not the dreaded go to the gym and either lift weights or do cardio (fat-burning).
Mike
May 9th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Absolutely it should be fun. People like doing stuff if its fun, so walking the dogs or swimming with the kids etc is all exercise cleverly disguised as good, clean fun!