Health experts and researchers unanimously agree that “sitting is indeed the new smoking!? Tight hip flexors, neck pain, lower back pain, bad posture ? sitting for long hours can do more damage than these obvious physical aches and discomfort. Leading a sedentary lifestyle can put one in the risk category of developing cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, and other metabolic diseases. Just one hour of sweating it out in the gym will not shake off the “sedentary” tag from your lifestyle if you spend the rest of your waking hours before the laptop/computer or on the couch without any physical activity. If you are wondering why you are not losing weight even with daily exercise, spending hours in a sitting position might be one of the major reasons. Wondering what extra you would need to do to get lean – here’s what you need to do – start on a a good calorie-deficit diet (Rati Beauty diet for example), exercise moderately, and then increase NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) in daily life.
What is NEAT"
Abbreviated as NEAT, it is the energy we use for everything we do in our day-to-day life except for when we are sleeping or exercising. Using the stairs instead of the lift, squatting on the floor to lift something up, walking while talking on the phone, every activity we do while being on our feet, comes under NEAT. All these activities help to burn some amount of calories and these bits of calories spent...