Sitting in Chair is harmful?

Sitting on the floor cross legged is a traditional way. After the advent of the usage of chair things changed seriously. In the olden days to make someone sit on a Chair was considered to be paying respect and only the people of greater importance used chairs. Nowadays chairs are so widely used and everyone refuse to sit on the floor. Sitting on floor is considered to be outdated and the worst part is it is considered to be a Barbarian way. Even sometimes people from Cities consider themselves to be highly civilized and mock the people who sits on floor or who sit cross legged.

The truth is, it is DANGEROUS to sit on chair! Yes.. To some extent. Its ill effects can only be noted after a long term and so people generally don't realize this. See the picture below

 Blood flows the same rate to the legs even when legs not in use

When we sit there is no need of much blood flow to our legs because we don't use our legs when we sit. So when we sit on a chair our legs continue to get more blood and thus we waste our body minerals due to unnecessary deposition on our legs(which is not in use when we sit). Consider the people who used to sit long hours in office. They waste their blood flow to legs when the legs actually don't need much blood supply. If the same thing happens to a Diabetic patient then unnecessary sugar deposition takes place in their legs and in turn their legs get affected. We should cut that unnecessary blood flow to our legs when we sit.

Traditional Japanese table

Japanese sitting posture

The Japanese still follow this kind of sitting practice .We can see clearly that this sitting posture cuts normal blood flow to legs. So as a result the blood flow is limited and we save our minerals and health. The same happens when we sit like the below picture

Cross legged sitting posture

Even this is mentioned in Yoga and they call it as Sukhasana. Cross legged posture has greater benefits. It saves your health by cutting down unwanted blood flow and mineral deposition. Especially the people with diabetes should sit this way to save their legs. If not in office at least we can sit this way in our home. Lets slowly start practicing sitting cross legged on the floor in our home and make it our regular habit. Lets stay healthy!

Think! 

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