You may be sitting with crossed legs, at least once or twice in a day.
If your grandmother or someone else , is advicing you not to sit with crossed legs, than she is correct. Crossing your legs can give bad impact on your health. If you are a fan of sitting with crossed legs, rethink the bad effects before doing so. Sitting with crossed legs may dislocate your pelvic bones.
Crossed legs may cause spider veins. Crossing your legs causes pressure on your veins. This may damage your vein.
Crossing your legs may cause an increase in your blood pressure. You may not feel it, but it happens.
You may get the pin and needles feel, when you keep your legs crossed. This is due to temporary paralysis and numbness caused by the pressure due to crossing your legs.
According to a study, people who sat with crossed legs are more likely to lean forward and have postural problems. Keeping your legs crossed may have a bad effect on your back, hips and pelvis.
If men, sit with crossed legs it may raise the temperature of their groin. Would be fathers should not sit with their legs crossed. It will have an effect on their sperm. This may cause infertility in them.
Leg crossing is linked with mortality. So avoid, crossing your legs for more than fifteen minutes. Even you eat well, sleep well and exercise well,some lifestyle habits may damage your health.
I did not know about it bad effects. I shall remember this from now on.