Health Care : Current Reviews

Abstract

Impact of Sedentary Lifestyle on Teenagers 13-25 Years in Urban Households

Pranav Dhawan*

Through this paper the author aims to provide a high-level overview of the root cause of the issue of sedentary life. With the onset of the modern age came the onset of a new category of diseases, the diseases caused due to a sedentary lifestyle. With a fall of 30% since 1960 in jobs requiring physical activity, 80% of jobs today are sedentary or require only light activity. According to WHO, 60-85% of the population does not engage in enough activity keeping this thought in mind the author through this paper aims to shows that the rate of diseases like obesity, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes type-2 has increased substantially since the 1950s, which may be attributed to the increased availability, affordability and range of different machines for different purposes which has made life easier and at the same time brought human energy expenditure to a relative stand still.

Published Date: 2020-01-31; Received Date: 2019-11-29