Abstract
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.
Highlights
Diabetes: A disease in which blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high
Though leisure sedentary behaviors and television were significantly associated with the risk of diabetes, it was influenced by race/ethnicity with most associations only being significant in non-Hispanic whites
The onset of the modern age in the 1950s has clearly shown a steep rise in the prevalence of diabetes in teens as well as adults, indicating a dependence of the disease on sedentary lifestyle as the onset of the 1950s came with the increase in the number of high stress jobs requiring low to virtually no activity [16,17,18,19,20]
Summary
Diabetes: A disease in which blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high. Insulin is a hormone that helps the glucose gets into your cells to give them energy. Regression analysis demonstrated that the incidence of diabetes doubled over a 30-year period from the 1950s, apparently peaking in the late 1970s This rise is hypothesized to have been due to the increase in the number of desk jobs requiring low to almost no activity. The onset of the modern age in the 1950s has clearly shown a steep rise in the prevalence of diabetes in teens as well as adults, indicating a dependence of the disease on sedentary lifestyle as the onset of the 1950s came with the increase in the number of high stress jobs requiring low to virtually no activity [16,17,18,19,20]
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