Most Sitting While Working? Do Stretches And Light Movements To Avoid Heart Attacks

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JAKARTA - A sedentary lifestyle or secondary often occurs among office workers who mostly sit indoors for eight to 10 hours per day doing monotonous activities in front of computers and occasionally meeting. During lunch, some of them stay in the room so they rarely spend a lot of energy and are less on foot. Eating snacks, coffee or contemporary drinks is often a complement to work. According to the Ministry of Health, the lifestyle refers to all types of activities outside of sleep with very few characteristics of calorie output. Based on the duration of time, this lifestyle is divided into low levels in less than two hours, medium levels in a duration of two to five hours and a high level of more than five hours. Sequis Senior Manager Medical Underwriter Dr. Fridolin Seto Pandu reminded that there is a health risk of a consistent lifestyle such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease that lurks in a single lifestyle. Therefore, Fridolin recommends that people reduce this lifestyle habit by fighting laziness to move and increasing self-motivating to do more physical activity. Especially for office workers, they can use the remaining lunch time to do light activities such as walking. Then at work, you should avoid sitting positions that can cause back and neck pain. "In ideal conditions when sitting, try to have a posture in an upright state. It is also important to pay attention to the position of the legs, getting used to the feet always on the floor so that the circulation of blood flow is smoother," Fridolin said as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, June 16. He advised people to stretch their bodies for about five to 10 minutes on the sidelines of work time. "It would be very good if at least three to four times a week exercise for 30-40 minutes to keep the body in shape," he said. In addition to carrying out physical activities, Fridolin also suggested that office workers carry out regular health checks to prevent disease from an early age. Health checks that can be done include hypertension checks to prevent stroke, pap smear checks to prevent cervical cancer and comprehensive health checks (MCU) to find out potential critical diseases in the body. Then, continued Fridolin, as another solution to the potential for critical illness due to a temporary lifestyle, people are encouraged to have health insurance and critical disease insurance as a financial safety net so that when they are exposed to the risk of illness.