How your office job is ruining your health: From your eyes to your heart to your butt – experts explain the damage and how to offset it

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HEART HEALTH: EVEN FOUR WORKOUTS A WEEK IS NOT ENOUGH IF YOU DON’T HAVE STANDING BREAKS

What’s the damage? 

‘The major things from a point of view of your heart is if you’re sitting your heart rate will lower, and this affects everything,’ Dr Allan Stewart, MD, Director of Aortic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, tells Daily Mail Online. 

He runs through the laundry list of issues: 

1) You tend to eat less healthy foods

‘If you don’t have the ability to get up, you will just make do with the food near you or that can be delivered to you, which tends to be less nutritious,’ Dr Stewart explains.

‘Also if you’re going to be sat all day, you’re going to look for things that will give you a sugar rush for energy.’ 

2) You build up fat on your heart

‘Muscles burn less fat because you’re less active. Because you have an increase in circulation of fatty acids and cholesterol to the heart, this increases your risk of a heart attack,’ Dr Stewart says. 

‘Even if you go to the gym four times a week you won’t completely offset the damage of sitting for at least six hours a day. You will still have a higher risk of heart attack.’

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