5 Health Tips for People Who Have Sedentary Jobs

5 Health Tips for People Who Have Sedentary Jobs

 So you landed that great job in the company you dreamed about working for, but you soon discovered a problem: the sedentary work lifestyle. Human beings weren’t made to sit for 8 to 10 hours a day, but that’s what’s happening now.

It’s vital to your health to mitigate the problems that sedentary job is creating. Below are five tips for sedentary workers.

1. Get up every 30 minutes

It’s hard to remember to do this, but it’s important to stand up and move a little bit, every 30 minutes. Sometimes you’ll be in the middle of a smooth flow of work, and other times you might be on a long conference call, but neither occasion should be one that forces you to sit for more than a half hour.

2. Keep food out of reach

One common method of gaining excess weight is snacking in a manner that’s almost unconscious: while you’re sitting and not having to move to get your food.

Simply moving your food out of reach will lower your chances of unnecessary weight gain, which is a concern in a sedentary job where you’re not burning a lot of calories.

3. Breathe

Sometimes when you’re not moving around much, or physically exerting yourself, it’s easy to forget the importance of taking deep, smooth breaths. Breathing has many health benefits, including oxidizing your blood and preventing certain types of pains and headaches.

4. Exercise when you’re not working

Now that you have a sedentary job, it’s more important than ever to exercise when you’re not at the office. Hundreds of years ago, we didn’t really have a choice when it came to exercise, because most people had to do some type of physical activity to survive.

With the migration of so many jobs into office cubicles, however, we now live in a world where we must go out of our way to exercise and remain physically healthy on a consistent basis.

5. Stay informed

Working a sedentary job is basically a new health risk, and there are continual breaking developments happening all around us, that you can and should read about. Evolving problems like sciatica or low back pain are so general and widespread, you’ll want to do searches online for medical groups that discuss these types of conditions and the ways to treat them.

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