Prolonged Sitting Effects: TV Sitting Time Is Most Likely To Cause Diabetes [Study]

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Many previous studies claimed that too much sitting is deadly but a new research found it wrong. The researchers say that there are differences between various sitting behaviors such as sitting at work, commuting, leisure time, and TV time.

According to Daily Mail, the well-known idea that sitting is the new smoking caused a serious diverted understanding. Many are claiming that stationary lifestyle is deadlier than HIV infection.

However, a latest study presents that there are factors involve in identifying the effect of sitting on human's health. Previously reported illnesses like, diabetes, for example, are not entirely based on the number of hours spent in sitting.

The study, based at the University of Sydney in Australia, examined feedbacks from a long-term 1998 health research. This was accomplished by middle-aged and older London-based laborers.

The participants were originally free of diabetes and major cardiovascular disorders. They were requested to submit the total of time they spent on these different sitting behaviors; sitting at work, commuting, leisure time, and TV time.

Their blood glucose levels were tested until the end of 2011 to recognize if there are new cases of diabetes over the follow-up period. The overall finding showed that 402 cases of episode diabetes developed during the follow-up phase.

From that result, there was a minor indication link between sitting and diabetes, and most were associated to sitting while watching television. The London-based workers were actually claimed having big amounts of walking, in an average of 45 minutes per day.

A 2010 research discovered men and women who sat over six hours per day died earlier than those who sat three hours or less each day. The 2014 study, on the other hand, claimed that longer sitting time induced the risk for colon, endometrial and, probably lung cancer. These risks increase with each two-hour additional sitting time even to physically active people.

However, there are dissimilarity between various behaviors like TV sitting time, which is widely used in most existing studies and sitting while working, lead author Dr. Emmanuel Stamatakis, from the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre, said. TV time and sitting time are essentially not related, he added.

Therefore, there are great rationales that the health dangers associated to TV sitting time in the previous studies are due to other causes. These may be resulted from worse mental health, snacking and exposure to unhealthy foods' advertising.