“Both hodgkin and non-hodgkin lymphoma are malignancies of a family of white blood cells known as leukocytes, which help the body fight off infections and other diseases/illnesses.”

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

“More than 102 million American Adults (20 years or older) have total cholesterol levels at or above 200 mg/dL, which is above healthy levels. More than 35 million of these people have levels of 240 mg/dL or higher, which puts them at high risk for heart disease. Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance found in your body and many foods. Your body needs cholesterol to function normally and makes all that you need. Too much cholesterol can build up in your arteries. After a while, these deposits narrow your arteries, putting you at risk for heart disease and stroke.”

Centers for Disease Prevention and Control

“When you sit, you use less energy than you do when you stand or move. Research has linked sitting for long periods of time with a number of health concerns. They include obesity and a cluster of conditions — increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol levels — that make up metabolic syndrome. Too much sitting overall and prolonged periods of sitting also seem to increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease and cancer.”

MAYO CLINIC Dr. Edward R. Laskowski

Humans are not sedentary creatures.

It is only logical that the human body was not created to sit still for many hours during the day. Research has proven that how much we sit has serious consequences for our weight, our posture, and even on our lifespan. Human beings did not start out with the lifestyle that most people in the western world now have. We lived on our feet, and not on our bottoms. Now that we have desk jobs, televisions, transport, and computers, most humans spend more time sitting on our bottoms the we spend sleeping. Our bodies were not meant to sit that much. In fact, sitting for more than 6 hours a day makes you 40% likelier to die within 50 years than someone who sits less than 3 hours a day. Even if you exercise regularly.

Hard to admit, but easy to believe: eight in 10 Americans spend nearly every single minute of their workday sitting behind a desk, according to research published in the journal PLOS One. Yikes.

But “the problems are not with sitting itself, but with passively sitting,” says Mark Schneider, a personal trainer at Movement Minneapolis. “Sitting is easy. If it took effort, fewer people would do it. Because of its ease, it’s common to do it to excess — and anything done to excess will be detrimental.”

As a result, people are burning around 120 to 140 fewer calories per workday than they did in 1960, resulting in a slow creep of weight gain. (This could tally up to about a nine-pound-a-year margin you’ll need to burn off.) Even scarier than the scale impact? The health impact. By sitting all day, you’re subjecting your body to a whole lot of bad.

1. You Can Say Goodbye to Good Cholesterol After Just 2 Hours of Sitting

Just like a light switch, electrical activity flips off the moment your butt hits the chair. “Calorie burning is significantly reduced and lipoprotein lipase, an enzyme that assists with the breakdown of fat, dramatically and rapidly drops,” says Dominique Wakefield, a Michigan-based health and fitness expert for the American Council on Exercise (ACE). That enzyme also plays a role in changing low-density lipoprotein (bad cholesterol) to high-density lipoprotein (good cholesterol). Sitting for eight or more hours a day — a pretty standard amount of time for people who work desk jobs! — decreases the enzyme’s ability to convert bad to good by 95 percent, scientists at The Ohio State University have found.

2. Your Muscles Will Ache — Like, All the Time

Tune in to how you’re sitting as you read this paragraph. Wait! Don’t move a muscle quite yet. Just sit still. Ask yourself: How does the seat feel? How is your head angled and where are your feet placed? How do the arm rests impact your arm alignment?

“The lack of attention to these things is what causes the problem. Sitting well, so it has minimal negative effects on you, is a skill. And like any skill it will take some effort to learn, but eventually will become habitual,” Schneider says.

Be mindful of your posture and adjust alignment as needed, says Jessica Matthews, a personal training expert for ACE who’s based in San Diego. “While standing, your ear, shoulder, hip, knee and ankle should form a straight line with the spine in an ‘S’ shape, due to its natural curvature. This also applies while in a seated position, except that the ear, shoulder, and hip should align, and the knee and ankle should align.”

Until you master pro-level sitting, expect tight hip muscles, increased back and neck pain, and possible breathing difficulties, since the rounded shoulder, tucked chin posture decreases the ability of your ribs to expand, Schneider says.

3. You’re 2 ½ Times More Likely to Struggle With Obesity

As mentioned above, while sitting, your calorie-burning potential crawls slower than the wait for the next season of Game of Thrones. In fact, ACE reports you’re more than twice as likely to be obese if you sit for six hours per day compared to just 30 minutes per day. Surprisingly, sitting too much is twice as dangerous for your wellbeing as being obese, says a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

4. Your Risk for Cancer, Type 2 Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease Will Climb

Beyond making you gain extra pounds, being too stationary can do a number on your longevity. “Sitting increases risk of death up to 40 percent. Inactivity is killing people and is arguably one of this generation’s greatest health threats,” Wakefield says. Cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease risks are more stark when overall physical activity levels are low, too, according to a review in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

5. Your Overall Mortality Risk Jumps

Nearly four percent of all deaths can be traced back to sitting too much, says a study in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine. ACE adds a surprising stat: Sitting less than three hours a day can add two years to your life. On the flip side, sitting for more than six hours and racking up a limited amount of exercise can raise overall risk of death by 94 percent.

“Multiple myeloma is a cancer of plasma cells. Normal plasma cells are found in the bone marrow and are an important part of the immune system.”

American Cancer Society

“Most cancers are solid—a collection of mutated cells that grow out of control and form a tumor. The six most common cancers—breast, lung, prostate, colorectal, melanoma and bladder—are solid cancers that account for almost 1 million new cases a year. Cancers that are not considered solid cancers are often lumped together in the category of blood cancers: leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.”

Cancer Treatments of America (www.cancercenter.com)

Lets just start with our type of cells in the body first that would help us better understand these names in their meaning and understand what gets effected immediately when types of cells are not in normal levels.

We have red blood cells in our blood stream and abbreviated RBCs.  Their substance in them are rich in hemoglobin, an iron-containing bio-molecule.  They are also known as erythrocytes.  They also are the food carrier of oxygen (02) carried in our body from tissue to tissue.  This is done via the heart by its pumping action.  RBCs are sent throughout the bloodstream from our heart.  In time sent back to the heart when all the 02 is used up by the tissues it reached.  Then sent to the lungs from the right side of the heart to get more 02 rich supply in the cell.  The lungs take from the cell the carbon dioxide (a toxin from the cell) that we release via exhaling from the lungs.  The cell  goes to the left side of the heart pumping the RBCs back out in the blood stream to release this 02 (energy)to our tissues to stay alive repeating this cycle over andl over again. till that RBC dies.  Without 02 to our tissues means death.

We have white blood cells.  White blood cells (also called leukocytes for WBCs in general and abbreviated as WBCs) are the cells of the immune system that are involved in protecting the body, they fight infection.

White blood cells (leukocytes) are the cells of the immune system that are involved in protecting the body against both infectious disease and foreign invaders but their are types of WBCs. All white blood cells are produced and derived from multipotent cells in the bone marrow known as hematopoietic stem cells. Leukocytes are found throughout the body, including the blood and lymphatic system (lymph nodes).

Types of white blood cells

• Monocytes. They have a longer lifespan than many white blood cells and help to break down bacteria.

• Lymphocytes. They create antibodies to defend against bacteria, viruses, and other potentially harmful invaders.

• Neutrophils. They kill and digest bacteria and fungi. They are the most numerous type of white blood cell and your first line of defense when infection strikes.

• Basophils. These small cells appear to sound an alarm when infectious agents invade your blood. They secrete chemicals such as histamine, a marker of allergic disease, that help control the body’s immune response.

• Eosinophils. They attack and kill parasites, destroy cancer cells, and help with allergic responses.

Both red blood and white blood cells have what is called a nucleus inside them meaning it stores the cell’s hereditary material, or DNA, and it coordinates the cell’s activities, which include growth, intermediary metabolism, protein synthesis, and reproduction (cell division).  In addition, cancer cells often have an abnormal shape, both of the cell, and of the nucleus (the “brain” of the cell.) The nucleus appears both larger and darker than normal cells. The reason for the darkness is that the nucleus of cancer cells contains excess DNA.

Platelet cells (also called thrombocytes are a component of blood whose function (along with the coagulation factors) is to react to bleeding from blood vessel injury by clumping, thereby initiating a blood clot.  The main function of platelets is to contribute to hemostasis: the process of stopping bleeding at the site in the body anywhere.  Platelets are considered “not a true cell” because of its make up and doesn’t have a nucleus in it like RBCs or WBCs.

Where do all our cells derive from?  The bone marrow, in adult humans bone marrow is primarily located in the ribs, vertebrae, sternum, and bones of the pelvis. On average, bone marrow constitutes 4% of the total body mass of humans.

In the bone marrow the formation of blood cellular components happens. All cellular blood components are derived from haematopoietic stem cells.  The formation of blood cellular components.

When these cells get affected with being increased or decreased in the bloodstream especially changing make up of the cell (Ex. cancer cell) then the person is at risk for problems that can occur if not resolved in the near future.

Multiple myeloma, lymphoma, and leukemia

These are all types of cancers that effect your WBCs and immunity system. Doctors often call them blood cancers.  The cells that are effected are WBC’s and after the cancer cells start intially effecting WBC’s affects the other cells.

­While these three types of cancers are alike in some ways (all three deals with intially affecting WBCs and our immune system) but they affect different parts of your body. Some are harder to treat than others.

Multiple myeloma hits your plasma cells. Multiple myeloma is a cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell.  These white blood cells make antibodies to fight disease. Myeloma cancer cells take over, and your body can’t fight infections like they did when your good WBCs where in normal level.  Remember all cancer cells keep replicating in the bone marrow (Where our cells are made from normally).

They take over eliminating the plasma normal cells allowing cancer cells to take over. In addition, cancer cells often have an abnormal shape, both of the cell, and of the nucleus (the “brain” of the cell.). The nucleus appears both larger and darker than normal cells nucleus (RBCs and WBCs). The reason for the darkness is that the nucleus of cancer cells contains excess DNA.

The cancer cells make abnormal antibodies that settle in your blood not allowing the regular function of regular plasma cells being done (fighting infection off).  Instead cancer cells do the opposite.  They can eat away at bone or damage your kidneys in this disease.

“The most common reason to have an induction is that the pregnancy has gone 2 or more weeks past the due date (or at the due date with twins). In this situation, the baby may: Get too large for a vaginal delivery Not receive enough oxygen through the placenta.  Other reasons could be Water breaks and contractions don’t begin,  High blood pressure or diabetes in the mother, Infection in the uterus, The baby is not growing properly, Low amniotic fluid level or Rh incompatibility.”

Winchester Hospital  (Winchester, Maine)

Why would I need to be induced?

Labor induction — also known as inducing labor — is the stimulation of uterine contractions during pregnancy before labor begins on its own to achieve a vaginal birth. Your health care provider might recommend inducing labor for various reasons, primarily when there’s concern for a mother’s health or a baby’s health. For example:

• You’re approaching two weeks beyond your due date, and labor hasn’t started naturally (postterm pregnancy)
• Your water has broken, but labor hasn’t begun (premature rupture of membranes)
• You have an infection in your uterus (chorioamnionitis)
• Your baby has stopped growing at the expected pace (fetal growth restriction)
• There’s not enough amniotic fluid surrounding the baby (oligohydramnios)
• You have diabetes
• You have a high blood pressure disorder
• Your placenta peels away from the inner wall of the uterus before delivery — either partially or completely (placental abruption)
• You have a medical condition such as kidney disease or obesity

Can I wait for labor to begin naturally?

Nature typically prepares the cervix for delivery in the most efficient, comfortable way. However, if your health care provider is concerned about your health or your baby’s health or your pregnancy continues two weeks past your due date, inducing labor might be the best option.

Why the concern after two weeks? When a pregnancy lasts longer than 42 weeks, amniotic fluid might begin to decrease and there’s an increased risk of having a baby significantly larger than average (fetal macrosomia). There’s also an increased risk of C-section, fetal inhalation of fecal waste (meconium aspiration) and stillbirth.

Can I request an elective induction?

Elective labor induction is the initiation of labor for convenience in a person with a term pregnancy who doesn’t medically need the intervention. For example, if you live far from the hospital or birthing center or you have a history of rapid deliveries, a scheduled induction might help you avoid an unattended delivery. In such cases, your health care provider will confirm that your baby’s gestational age is at least 39 weeks or older before induction to reduce the risk of health problems for your baby.

Can I do anything to trigger labor on my own?

Probably not.

Techniques such as exercising or having sex to induce labor aren’t backed by scientific evidence. Also, avoid herbal supplements, which could harm your baby.

What are the risks?

Labor induction isn’t for everyone. For example, it might not be an option if you have had a prior C-section with a classical incision or major uterine surgery, your placenta is blocking your cervix (placenta previa), or your baby is lying buttocks first (breech) or sideways (transverse lie) in your uterus.

Inducing labor also carries various risks, including:

• Failed induction. About 75 percent of first-time mothers who are induced will have a successful vaginal delivery. This means that about 25 percent of these women, who often start with an unripened cervix, might need a C-section. Your health care provider will discuss with you the possibility of a need for a C-section.
• Low heart rate. The medications used to induce labor — oxytocin or a prostaglandin — might cause abnormal or excessive contractions, which can diminish your baby’s oxygen supply and lower your baby’s heart rate.
• Infection. Some methods of labor induction, such as rupturing your membranes, might increase the risk of infection for both mother and baby.
• Uterine rupture. This is a rare but serious complication in which your uterus tears open along the scar line from a prior C-section or major uterine surgery. An emergency C-section is needed to prevent life-threatening complications. Your uterus might need to be removed.
• Bleeding after delivery. Labor induction increases the risk that your uterine muscles won’t properly contract after you give birth (uterine atony), which can lead to serious bleeding after delivery.

Inducing labor is a serious decision. Work with your health care provider to make the best choice for you and your baby

“Obesity can cause diabetes II, heart disease, high blood pressure, and more. High blood pressure is called the “silent killer” because it often has no warning signs or symptoms, and many people don’t realize they have it.”

American Heart Association