Stand Up For Yourself Analysis

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Alice Park’s article, “Stand Up for Yourself”, examines the negative effects of sitting on people’s health. Her article discusses the physiological reasons why sitting for more than eight hours can undo any health benefits gained from exercise (Park, 2014, p.1). However, what Park does not discuss is the effects of prolonged sitting on social or economic factors. When the bodies signals for movement “are drowned out by their own inertia”, the body will not want to move for a prolonged period in time (Park, 2014, p.1). As people get more accustomed to sitting rather than standing during small task, it starts to affect their social life and have psychological effects.
Sitting for too long effects more than the health of individuals, it can …show more content…

People sit while they eat, sit at work or school, sit when they get home, sit to watch TV, and sit to socialize. Over time, sitting has become a norm in today’s society, as Dr. Jamie Levine mention “standing up is an oddity” (Park, 2014, p.1). Prolonged sitting has the potential to cause psychological effects. People’s brain are an amazing adaptive living organism. Overtime it can be taught what is good and what is bad with a few words or association with pleasant and positive stimulus. In psychology the effects of this is studied with advertisement and commercials. Companies used pleasing images, like a puppy or popular music, to condition their viewers’ brains into associating that pleasant stimulus with their product. Sitting works in the same manner. Sitting can be associated with many things, the biggest is watching television. Overtime, the brain will be conditioned to see sitting as a pleasant thing due to the use of it while talking to friends, watching televisions, or eating food. It has become conditioned in people’s brains that these actions should be done while sitting. Prolonged sitting can have psychological effects due to the conditioning of the brain to link sitting with many acts throughout peoples’

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