How to combat folded sitting posture
PostureMedia: AARP Prime Time Focus with Alyne Ellis (Part 1 of 5)
Dr. Weiniger sat down with Alyne Ellis, host of AARP’s radio show, “Prime Time Focus,” to talk about why poor posture isn’t just a senior’s epidemic – it starts as early as childhood.
“The ‘old posture’ of being hunched over doesn’t start when you’re old – it starts as you’re living,” he says.
The risks surrounding society’s sedentary-centric lifestyles continue to grow as we sit longer and longer throughout the day.
Dr. Weiniger, the Posture Guru, tells AARP, “[The health risks of sitting are] far worse than anybody thought. People that sit 8-12 hours a day, over a number of years had a 91% increase in type-2 diabetes. Mortality goes up. Heart disease, arthritis goes up. The more you sit, the worse your health gets – even if you exercise.”
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AUDIO TRANSCRIPT
AARP: INTRO – “When we sit, our bodies bend.” Posture Expert, Dr. Steven Weiniger
WEINIGER: If you spend 12, 15, 18 hours a day with your body folded, which with sitting is a folded posture, over time your posture’s going to fold. Your muscles become trained to be in that folded posture. And just like a crease in a piece of paper, your body becomes bent like that, and the “old posture” of being hunched over doesn’t start when you’re old – it starts as you’re living.
AARP: Studies show that the health risks of sitting all the time are dramatic.
WEINIGER: Far worse than anybody thought. People that sit 8-12 hours a day, over a number of years had a 91% increase in type-2 diabetes. Mortality goes up. Heart disease, arthritis goes up. The more you sit, the worse your health gets – even if you exercise.
AARP: Dr. Weiniger’s advice – stand some while working, get a very supportive, ergonomic chair. Some of the time, sit on a large ball, like the ones in the gym. That’s Prime Time Focus brought to you by AARP. I’m Alyne Ellis.