Have you ever heard of it being bad to sit down for a while? Well in the article “Sitting is Bad for Children, Too” from The New York Times, recent studies of young, healthy girls have proved that if children sit in a single session for a prolonged time it can affect their blood flow and arteries that, in adults, can become the start of serious cardiovascular problems. This series of studies have gone through different types like sitting still for a certain amount of time to  riding a bike and then just relaxing for 3 uninterrupted hours on the couch. All the studies came to the same conclusion: their arteries did not function the same way as they did in the beginning. Of course they went back to normal very rapidly, it’s just the fact they weren’t functioning as well as they were before. So, every kid (or really anyone at all) should be encouraged to at least get up every hour to get their blood flow going. This article really caught my attention, because being a student, I’m one of those people that sit around for 8.5 hours a day on average in a classroom or even at home while doing homework. This event showed me that right now, my arteries are slowly functioning worse and worse. It makes me want to get up and move around so I don’t have cardiovascular problems in my future. Sure, every teenager would love to sit around all day and just play on their high-tech-21st-century phones, but now reading this, I’m not so sure having those “lazy days” are worth it when you think about your future health risks. This article puts an impact on the world because, most teenagers are like this, including myself. We’ll get home from a hard volleyball or football practice, and all we want to do is sit down and rest for as long as we can. But the problem with that, is that we are slowly but surely putting health risks in our future. Although the arteries go back to normal, it’s affecting us in a long-term way. The bad thing about this study, is the fact the the young girls they studied on, had no struggle at all to sit still for 3 long hours, just as long as they were entertained by Movies and iPads. With all the new technology, it doesn’t surprise me that teenagers and kids across the globe are sitting down an  average of 8.5 hours daily.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/sitting-is-bad-for-children-too/?ref=health