Sitting with your legs crossed is very comfortable and relaxed for many people. However, people always hear that crossing your legs is not good for your health.
To say, for women wearing short skirts, it is actually quite good to cross their legs to prevent exposure.
Those small online articles that say crossing legs is heinous all ignore an important point:
We will change our legs.
Let me cross my legs and give you a few examples. For example:
Can it cause numbness of limbs?
Well, if you sit longer, you may feel numb, but…
Sitting on the pins and needles of my legs and feet is only temporary.
How smart are we? If we feel a little uncomfortable with our sitting posture, we will voluntarily change our legs, then change our legs, then change our legs… We have always been in a comfortable state, right?
Any long-term [limb numbness] problem cannot be caused by crossing your legs.
Okay, change your legs and go on.
Does that cause high blood pressure?
Similarly, the increase in blood pressure is temporary.
Generally, blood pressure will return to normal level only three minutes after returning to normal sitting position from crossing your legs. Moreover, there is no evidence to prove that this will cause long-term blood pressure harm.
However, people suffering from thrombosis or high-risk groups had better not cross their legs for a long time.
Because for them, increased blood flow resistance will increase the risk of deep vein thrombosis.
Okay, change your legs.
Will you get varicose veins?
The formation of varicose veins is mainly due to the relatively weak congenital vascular wall membrane, or maintaining the same posture for a long time, allowing blood to accumulate in the lower limbs.
In the case of accumulation, the venous valve is damaged and the venous pressure is too high, making the blood vessels protrude from the skin surface.
Varicose veins are often caused by heredity, obesity and age. There is no evidence that crossing your legs will directly cause varicose veins to stretch.
When you already have varicose veins, it is really better not to cross your legs for a long time.
Okay, change your legs.
Does that affect reproductive health?
Rumor has it that women crossing their legs will cause local temperatures to rise, thus creating a warm and humid environment [below] and causing a large number of pathogenic bacteria to multiply.
There is also a saying that men crossing their legs will make their balls too hot and their sperm will have no vitality…
So, may I ask if wearing warm clothes and trousers will also make [men silent and women cry]?
At present, there is no literature report that crossing legs is related to gynecological diseases. Similarly, there is no research to prove the effect of crossing legs on male reproductive function.
Change your legs and cool down.
It is also said that thighs become thicker and buttocks become bigger…
Wake up! Don’t throw the fat pot to cross your legs.
There is only one reason why thighs get thicker and buttocks get bigger, that is, eating too much and moving too little! Do you see a famous hostess surnamed Chen (not Lu) who has crossed her legs for so many years? Are her legs thick and her buttocks big?
No matter your legs are placed horizontally, vertically or obliquely, sitting for a long time is the most dangerous.
Not only will it make you fat, but there is also a lot of evidence that sitting for a long time can cause various cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and diabetes.
After reading the above rumor, do you feel that you can cross your legs without scruple? That’s wrong.
Crossing your legs can really cause waist and back pain.
If you look at it a little, people who like to cross their legs often have the problem of bending over on one side and hunchback, which is different from the elegance imagined, and is really not very good-looking.
The posture of crossing your legs, pelvic rotation and hip joint tension will lead to muscle strength imbalance over time, which is at risk of causing waist and back pain.
Then change the leg balance, won’t it solve the problem? No, the greatest possibility is that there will be problems on both sides.
Therefore, let’s sum up:
1. Crossing your legs does not seriously affect your health. As a comfortable posture, it is appropriate.
2. Don’t cross your legs for too long, even if you are changing your legs all the time.
3. People who already have varicose veins of lower limbs, discomfort of waist and back, deep vein thrombosis and other problems had better not cross their legs.