The Top 10 Deadly Bad Habits
Introduction:
Check your life to see if you have these 10 bad habits that are consuming our lives. Let's get rid of these life-threatening habits and have a healthy body.
Deadly Habit 1: Insufficient Water Intake
Deadly Reason: Causes brain aging; induces cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases; affects kidney metabolic function.
Office workers, due to high concentration during work, can easily forget to drink water, leading to insufficient water replenishment in the body. Reduced body water causes blood to concentrate and increase in viscosity, easily leading to thrombosis, inducing cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases, and also affecting the metabolic function of the kidneys.
Countermeasure: Drink more water and go to the restroom frequently; but note that for friends with poor large intestine metabolic function, it's best to drink water when you feel thirsty to avoid further disrupting the body's water metabolism.
Deadly Habit 2: Eating Fruit as a Staple Food
Deadly Reason: Causes deficiencies in substances like protein in the human body, leading to nutritional imbalances and even triggering diseases.
Many office workers, due to long periods of sedentary work, suffer from indigestion, high blood lipids, and vascular sclerosis. They indeed need the nutrients in fruit to alleviate these conditions. However, fruit cannot be a staple food. Although fruits contain various vitamins and sugars, they lack the protein and certain trace elements that the human body needs.
Countermeasure: First, go online to see what foods are suitable and unsuitable for your body type.
Deadly Habit 3: Eating Raw Food at Banquets
Deadly Reason: Leads to various parasitic diseases.
Among the preferred foods for office workers at business banquets—such as salmon, geoduck, sea bass, snakehead fish, sashimi, snake, turtle, and crab—the probability of parasites and pathogenic bacteria is very high. Furthermore, in pursuit of fresh flavor, chefs often do not cook these foods thoroughly, making it easy for you to get sick while enjoying your meal.
Countermeasure: The active substances in raw vegetables and juices are similar to those in the human body, which can keep white blood cells in a normal state and restore the immune function damaged by eating cooked food. Considering these benefits, you should first strengthen your digestive system. After all, eating raw food has its own rules:
1. Drink fresh vegetable and fruit juice daily.
2. Mix fresh vegetables with a dressing, you can add a moderate amount of vinegar and use less salt.
3. Humans rely on cooked food to sustain life. Eating raw food like fruits before cooked food will not cause a rise in white blood cells.
4. Avoid processed foods such as canned goods and foods containing preservatives, colorings, and other chemical additives.
Deadly Habit 4: Steeping Tea in a Thermos
Deadly Reason: Destroys vitamins and causes a large amount of tannic acid and theophylline to seep out.
Tea contains a large amount of tannic acid, theophylline, tea essential oil, and various vitamins. It is more suitable to brew it with water at about 80°C. If you steep tea leaves in high-temperature water in a thermos for a long time, it's like simmering them with low heat. This will destroy all the vitamins in the tea, cause a large amount of tea essential oil to evaporate, and lead to a significant seepage of tannic acid and theophylline. This not only reduces the nutritional value of the tea and diminishes its aroma but also increases the amount of harmful substances.
Countermeasure: Change your cup.
Deadly Habit 5: Smoking After Meals
Deadly Reason: Makes it easier for harmful substances in cigarettes to enter the body.
Smoking a cigarette after a meal can be more toxic than smoking ten cigarettes at other times. Because after eating, gastrointestinal motility and blood circulation are strengthened. At this time, the body's ability to absorb smoke is in an "optimal state," and the toxic substances in the cigarette enter the body more easily than usual, thereby causing greater damage to health.
Countermeasure: Quit smoking completely.
Deadly Habit 6: Excessive Alcohol Consumption
Deadly Reason: Large or frequent drinking can cause inflammation and enlargement of the liver and affect the reproductive and urinary systems.
Countermeasure: If you're going to drink, you must first learn how to drink---
Best Types: There are three main types of alcohol: liquor, beer, and fruit wine. From a health perspective, red wine, a type of fruit wine, is the best choice. The French suffer less from heart disease, which is attributed to this. According to researchers, regular consumption of red wine can cut the risk of heart disease in half.
Best Time: It is safer to drink alcohol after 2 PM daily. In the morning hours, the concentration of alcohol dehydrogenase—the enzyme that breaks down alcohol in the stomach—is low. Consuming the same amount of alcohol in the morning leads to easier absorption and a higher concentration of alcohol in the blood, causing greater damage to the liver, brain, and other organs. Additionally, it is not advisable to drink on an empty stomach, before bed, when you have a cold, or when emotionally upset, especially liquor, to protect the cardiovascular system.
Best Amount: A person weighing 60 kg should limit daily alcohol intake to under 60 grams. Those weighing less than 60 kg should reduce this amount accordingly, preferably to around 45 grams. This translates to: 50 grams of 60-proof liquor, 1 kilogram of beer, or 250 ml of whiskey. Although red wine is healthy for you, it should not be consumed excessively; 2 to 3 glasses a day is ideal.
Best Food Pairings: From the perspective of alcohol metabolism, high-protein and vitamin-rich foods are recommended. Such as fresh vegetables, fresh fish, lean meat, beans, eggs, etc. Note: Avoid pairing alcohol with cured fish, sausages, or cured meats. These smoked and preserved foods contain large amounts of pigments and nitrosamines, which react with alcohol, not only harming the liver but also damaging the oral and esophageal mucosa and even inducing cancer.
Deadly Habit 7: Excessive Coffee Consumption
Deadly Reason:
1. Reduces fertility rates. Drinking one cup of coffee per person per day can lower the conception rate by up to 50%;
2. Increases the risk of heart disease. Coffee contains a high concentration of caffeine, which can alter heart function and increase cholesterol levels in the blood;
3. Reduces work efficiency.
American medical researchers have found that people who drink five or more cups of coffee a day are twice as likely to develop heart disease as non-drinkers. The longer and more they drink coffee, the greater the possibility of developing heart disease. A survey of 858 people aged 45-69 who suffered their first heart attack showed that those who drank more than five cups of coffee a day had a 70% increased risk of the disease.
Countermeasure: Drink less.
Deadly Habit 8: Too Rich a Dinner
Deadly Reason: Causes insomnia in the evening.
For office workers, dinner has almost become the main meal of the day. Breakfast depends on the "clock," lunch on the "work schedule," and only at night can they truly relax, sit down at the table, and enjoy a hearty meal.
Countermeasure: First, eat dinner early. Eating dinner early can significantly reduce the incidence of urinary tract stones. Second, eat a simple dinner. Dinner should be light-based, focusing on foods rich in carbohydrates, especially fresh vegetables. Minimize the intake of excessive protein and fatty foods. Third, eat a small dinner. Generally, the calories provided by dinner should not exceed 30% of the total daily dietary calories.
Deadly Habit 9: Skipping Breakfast
Deadly Reason: Severely damages the stomach, making it difficult for you to work with full energy, and also makes you "look older." Researchers at the University of Erlangen in Germany, after a long-term study of 7,000 men and women, found that 40% of them were in the habit of skipping breakfast, and their average lifespan was 2.5 years shorter than the other 60%. Another university, in a study of people aged 80-90, found that one common trait among the long-lived was that they ate a substantial breakfast every day.
Countermeasure: Breakfast foods should be as appetizing and delicious as possible; have sufficient quantity and good quality; be small in volume but high in energy; and be quick and easy to prepare.
We know that different foods stay in the stomach for different lengths of time and cause different blood sugar reactions. Normally, a mix of solid and liquid foods can stay in the stomach for 4-5 hours. However, liquid foods, due to their large volume, make you feel full right after eating, but they stay in the stomach for a very short time. Their nutrients are not fully digested before being expelled, and the resulting blood sugar level drops quickly and cannot be sustained. Therefore, when choosing foods, be sure to mix solid and liquid foods and include both vegetarian and non-vegetarian options.
Deadly Habit 10: Eating Too Quickly
Deadly Reason: Overloads the digestive system and leads to obesity. Many office workers eat their lunch in a very rushed state. Eating too quickly means food is not chewed thoroughly, which is not conducive to the initial digestion by oral food and salivary amylase, overloading the digestive system. Chewing for too short a time keeps the vagus nerve in a state of over-excitement. Over the long term, this can easily lead to overeating and obesity.
Countermeasure: Try to make your teeth and tongue move as slowly as possible. If you are really short on time, then sacrifice some time for playing cards or napping.