Sedentarianism is a term created to describe people following a sedentary lifestyle and it should be considered a new chronic disease. There is a misconception that being sedentary is normal and that people can be healthy via diet and other healthy lifestyle choices. Modern society continues to dumb down the perceived concept of normal, to be blunt, sedentary is the euphemistic veil placed on living in a metabolic disease state.
It may be easy to ignore sedentarianism to avoid the P.C. police, but make no mistake about it this is unhealthy, it is not normal, and it contributes to a variety of chronic diseases plaguing the struggling healthcare system. A sedentary lifestyle should be viewed as a marker of metabolic dysfunction that is chronic, easily reversible, and solvable at little to monetary burden. Unless a person is recovering from an injury or sickness, or has a disability, being sedentary is a choice that equals having a disease leading to early death.
