If you want to lose weight, stand more and sit less
Regardless of the nature and form of obesity, the best way to lose weight is to exercise, it goes without saying. But if you're really lazy, or really don't have time, that's fine, but also in a still state, standing is more likely to lose weight than sitting. Because when a person stands, the calories consumed per minute are one kilocalorie, and the calories that can be consumed by standing for eight hours are about 480 kilocalories, which is equivalent to the calories of 400 grams of rice.
Because when a person is sitting, the spine is mainly responsible for your weight. When sitting, the force on the spine is several times that when standing. The reason for the high incidence of cervical and lumbar spine problems is that people sit for too long, and the function of the muscles is withered by sitting. Without the sharing of muscles, the spine can only bear the weight alone, and the intervertebral disc is pressed into "protrusion" in this way.
If you stand up, first of all, because of the sharing of muscles, the pressure of the weight on the spine is reduced, and the various problems of the intervertebral disc will be alleviated. What's more, to maintain a standing position, all of your antigravity "antigravity muscles" must be used. The so-called "anti-gravity muscles" are mostly large muscles, such as the quadriceps of the thigh and the dorsal tuner of the back. They are the second largest muscles in the body. When standing, these muscles must participate in the movement, and When sitting, these muscles are relaxed because they do not need to be heavy. Only the process of doing work can increase the consumption of the hot surface.
Because of gravity, it is difficult for blood to return to the heart. In order to promote the flow of blood, secondly, when standing, Liu's functions to help blood return are all adjusted, and the main one is the muscles. The elasticity of the muscles helps push the blood waves back to the heart. In this process, the work done within the muscles also consumes energy. Again, in order to help the blood return to the heart against gravity, the body will speed up the heart rate. When a person is standing Compared with birth, the heart beats an average of + times per minute, and each heartbeat requires energy, which makes the human body burn 0.7 more calories per minute. At the same time, in order to push blood back to the heart, peripheral blood vessels will also Contraction, the peripheral blood vessels of the whole body are added together, and the energy consumed by contraction cannot be underestimated.
Finally, when standing, the movement of the chest cavity is smoother and oxygen can be taken in more fully. Compared with the sitting position, when standing up, the amount of air exchange per minute can be increased by about 20%, because more oxygen enters, the metabolism is accelerated, and the fat burning rate is also increased.
"European Preventive Cardiology" magazine published a new study: standing does consume 0.15 more calories per minute than sitting. If you can stand without sitting for six hours, a 130-pound adult will consume 54 kcal more. If you don't increase your food intake, standing is equivalent to sitting - you can lose five pounds more in a year. To this end, Public Health England has issued a national health initiative: "If you want to be healthy, try to stand for -hours a day."