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New research has revealed that men who work in physically demanding roles face a greater risk of untimely death, the hours of high-strain repetitive movements involved in manual labour are harsher on the body than the shorter burst of a jog or workout. The results are thought to be the same even when lifestyle factors such as fitness, diet, smoking and alcohol are taken into consideration, but the same link was not found among women.
International guidelines recommend that people must do 30 minutes of moderate activity per day to remain healthy, manual labour could strain the heart. Researchers at the university in the Netherlands looked at the results of previous studies on the subject done between 1960 and 2010. They compared the deaths of 193,696 people with the level of physical activity in their occupations using data from 17 studies.
According to the authors, the study is the first to prove the effects of different types of physical activity using data from studies with a large number of people. Although women were less likely to die young if they had an active job, researchers suggest job differences and different perceptions of activity levels may have affected results.
Couch potato lifestyle can damage the health in two weeks, sedentary lifestyles are an increasing problem in Western society and could have bad effects on people’s health in just two weeks of inactivity. Health begins to deteriorate within a fortnight of living a ‘couch potato’ lifestyle, increasingly inactive lives could damage their health in the long term, leading to serious conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and strokes. The damage can be reversed by engaging in active outdoor activities daily.
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