Sedentary lifestyle is the key risk factor for people's lives and health

* It annually kills half million Europeans

It is not a secret that sedentary lifestyle is extremely harmful to humans - not only for their bodies but also for the emotional and mental health.

Researches show that sitting at your desk all day long, increases mortality with 20% in males and 40% in females and every year 500,000 Europeans and 1.9 million people worldwide die from sedentary. This is the result of all the damages that lack of physical activities causes, including:

• daily prolong sitting for more than 10 years double the risk of colon cancer;

• people who sit longer are threatened by obesity - sitting in a chair consumes three times less calories per minute compared to moderate movement;

• sitting for long periods brings digestive problems;

• sedentary lifestyle damages the health of the kidneys - especially in women;

• for lugs it is more difficult to supply the body with oxygen, when we are sitting;

• the enzymes responsible for burning fat shutting down and the metabolic rate is reduced;

• for every 2 hours that a person watches TV or stay in front of a computer, the risk of type 2 diabetes increases with 14% ;

• less active people have a greater risk of developing high blood pressure;

• people who are sedentary have the highest rate of heart attacks;

• sedentary lifestyles are likely to be causing as many deaths as smoking;

• lack of physical activity increases the loss of lean muscle tissue, which makes everyday regular activities much more difficult to perform;

• back ache and neck pain are very common in people with little physical activities;

• bone loss also progresses much faster in people who have sedentary lifestyle, which rises the risk of osteoporosis;

• sitting for too long leads to frequent headaches and sleeping disorders;

• lack of physical activities brings feelings of anxiety and depression;

• the brain function also slows down, when a person is sedentary for long periods (more than 4 hours a day), which can lead to dementia;

• long hours at the computer also affects people's social life - they don't spend enough time with their families and friends, which at one point, brings feelings of loneliness, misunderstanding and apathy.
  

Studies show that every one in four Europeans leads a sedentary lifestyle with no exercises - these are mainly women and youth.

This costs Europe EUR 80 billion per year, while even small changes can lead to huge results! For example - walking or ryding a bycicle to and back from work; taking a short walk in the lunch break; long walks in the nature at every opportunity (evenings, weekends, vacations); using stairs instead of an elevator; walking or cycling to the supermarket; give yourself a minute for stretching every time you stand up from the chair; etc.

Enjoying a folklore dance club could be a great additiont to your seeking of a healhier and happier lifestyle.

Traditional Bulgarian dances are proven to have a beneficial effect on a human's body, but this is not all - folklore dance clubs are a great places for making friends and relaxing in a good company after a tiring day.

Even if only 1/5 of the Europeans implement these methods of prevention, this would save at least 100,000 lives every year!