Telecommuting: the need for a healthy lifestyle

Telecommuting exacerbates a sedentary lifestyle, which should not be trivialized. You need to get up at least every two hours and move around for 5 minutes.

Our sedentary lifestyle, aggravated by telecommuting, has cardiometabolic repercussions. We're seeing weight gain, hypertension, high blood sugar and diabetes... The other complication is phlebitis. It's like passengers on a 10-hour flight who don't move. The iliac vein in the thigh is kinked. Blood doesn't flow properly back to the heart, especially if you're a smoker. This encourages the formation of blood clots.
Sitting at home, without moving all day, with one video meeting after another, just interrupted by a trip to the kitchen to get something to nibble on, is a health catastrophe. Added to a sedentary lifestyle are stress, isolation, unbalanced diet, sleep disturbed by lack of physical activity and constant screen work. An explosive cocktail with worrying results: high blood pressure, poorly controlled blood sugar levels for diabetics, but also weight gain in both men and women. And there's another risk: blood clots, which can cause phlebitis or pulmonary embolism because you're not moving enough. The same applies to prolonged sitting on an airplane without drinking enough water... These risks apply to everyone. A woman who smokes and takes estrogen-based contraception is at greater risk than a woman who is not overweight and moves regularly. Risk factors are an evil combination. The Americans say "sitting is the new smoking", which means that sitting is as bad as smoking. Today, a sedentary lifestyle is trivialized in the same way as smoking. This encourages cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and is a real health time bomb.
A few tips to avoid this: get up and take a few steps for ten minutes every two hours. Drink at least one and a half liters a day, avoiding high-sugar sodas. Do a little exercise, climb the stairs several times a day, or always make a phone call while standing up, for example.
It's up to us to recreate our own balance in the face of constraints...
Véronique Julia-Chevalier's column on France Inter
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