Sitting behind school desks for between 3 to 7 hours per day could be worse for your child's health than smoking.
According to Dr. James A. Levine (Mayo Clinic & a principal investigator for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)), sitting for long periods of time is associated with a higher risk of:
Heart disease
Cancer
Diabetes
Depression
Anxiety
“Sitting is more dangerous than smoking, kills more people than HIV and is more treacherous than parachuting. We are sitting ourselves to death.”
~ Dr. James A. Levine
Other doctors disagree that sitting is *actually* worse than smoking but everyone agrees that prolonged sitting is a serious health concern and that exercise alone is not enough to make up for it!
According to cardiologists reviewing further research…
“No amount of physical activity is enough to combat the dangerous health effects of sitting for hours each day.”
Exercise is vital for your child's health but the cure for these problems with sitting is to do less overall sitting...
Which is kind of problematic when a class teacher's primary objective is to keep your son/daughter sat in their seat all day long!
One study showed that people who sat for 3 hours or less a day, were 20-40% less likely to die during the prolonged study versus people who sat for 8 hours a day or longer.
How can your son/daughter sit for less than 3 hours per day if you are making them go to school where they are REQUIRED to sit for more than 3 hours per day?
Is a solution to make them stand during dinner at home?
I can think of a better one:
Home Educate.
Sarah Plumley
Thinker-Teacher-Truther