Shun sedentary life

Today, at a time of tension and lifestyle-related illness, the importance of maintaining an active lifestyle could not have been more emphasized. And to root this message in our mind, a recent study of 1,22,007 patients found that a sedentary lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking, diabetes, and heart disease. We spoke to experts for their verdict …

Dr. Wael Jaber, lead author of the study, described the results as "extremely surprising": "Being unfit on a treadmill or a physical stress test has a worse prognosis, until death. , be hypertensive, diabetic or current smoker. We have never seen anything so pronounced and purposeful. According to him, being unfit should be treated almost like a disease that involves a medicine called exercise.

Researchers have always feared that "ultra" practitioners are at greater risk of death, but the study showed that this was not the case. If you compare the sedentary to the best athletes, the risk of death is 500% higher, and the one who does not do much activity to the one who exercises regularly presents a risk of 390% higher.

Most people are physically inactive

Do our experts agree with the results of the study? Dr. Pradeep Gadge, diabetologist in chief of the Gadge Diabetes Center, who agrees with the study, was not surprised how he expected it. "The session has already been called a new cigarette. People do not exercise easily. Out of a thousand patients I have seen, there are only two or three who exercise regularly. Whether they are people working in information technology, other corporate jobs, housewives or even the medical world, they are guilty of being physically inactive, "he laments. These days, he sees people in the computer industry who have blood pressure and diabetes issues in the 25-30 age group. While people with other jobs and sedentary lifestyles are facing these diseases in the 35-40 age group.

No culture of exercise in our country

Exercise regularly keeps metabolism in check and controls oxidative stress, which is the basis for most lifestyle-related diseases, says Dr. Rajendra Kesarwani, a physician specializing in thoracic surgery at SRV Mamata Hospital, who also approves this study. "People have to exercise, smoke, have high blood pressure or have diabetes." Unfortunately, there is no exercise culture in our country. India is a hot spot with the highest number of cases of diabetes, hypertension and obesity, he warned.

Even normal individuals need to exercise

People often think that if they do not have vices or lifestyle-related diseases, they do not have to exercise. How far from the truth are they? According to Dr. Gadge, it is not because they do not engage in vices or lifestyle-related illness that they do not need to exercise. They invite these problems by doing so. People wait for health problems to appear and then think about getting in shape. They forget that prevention is better than cure.

Our bodies are not meant to be sedentary

Dr. Narayan Gadkar, a cardiologist at Zen Multispeciality Hospital, agrees with the study, but has some reservations. "Although physical inactivity is harmful, extreme exercise is not good either. In addition, you can not really compare being sedentary to worse than smoking, high blood pressure and diabetes. You can not extrapolate it this way, because the subjects for measuring lack of exercise and those who suffer from the aforementioned diseases are not the same. Another thing, people should not take the wrong message that if you exercise, you can afford to smoke. That said, a normal person is supposed to exercise to survive, even if they do not smoke, have no blood pressure or diabetes. Our bodies are not supposed to be sedentary. A brisk walk for 45 minutes, five days a week is a must, beyond that is even better.

The absence of disease is not necessarily synonymous with being in good health

People often feel that the absence of disease is synonymous with health. Therefore, they assume that a blood test means an assessment of fitness. All blood test parameters are normal. All fitness balance parameters must be normal. However, this is not true, says Swapneel Hazare, founder and owner of SHIELD. He adds that if you do not exercise regularly, obesity is not far, which is associated with a multitude of problems such as increased risk of heart disease, stroke, gallstones, apnea sleep, reproductive problems, some cancers, etc.