How to Improve Common Unhealthy Habits in Men
1: Insufficient Water Intake
Deadly Reason: Leads to brain aging; triggers cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases; affects kidney metabolic function.
Office workers, due to high levels of concentration during work, can easily forget to drink water, leading to inadequate water replenishment in the body. Reduced body water causes blood to concentrate and increase in viscosity, which can easily lead to thrombosis, trigger cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases, and also affect the metabolic function of the kidneys.
Countermove: Drink more water and go to the restroom frequently; but note that for some friends with poor large intestine metabolic function, it's best to drink water only when you feel thirsty to avoid further disrupting the body's water metabolism.
2: Eating Fruit as a Staple Food
Deadly Reason: Causes the body to lack substances like protein, leading to nutritional imbalance and even triggering diseases.
Many office workers, due to long-term sedentary work habits, suffer from indigestion, high blood lipids, and vascular sclerosis. These conditions do require the nutrients in fruit to alleviate. 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.
Countermove: Go online first to see what your body type is suitable for and what it is not.
3: Constantly 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 sufficiently, making it easy for you to get sick from what you eat while indulging.
Countermove: 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 juices daily.
2. Eat fresh vegetables raw, with a small amount of vinegar and less salt.
3. Humans rely on cooked food to sustain life. Eating raw food like fruit 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.
4: Brewing Tea in a Vacuum Flask
Deadly Reason: Destroys vitamins and causes large amounts of tannic acid and theophylline to seep out.
Tea contains large amounts of tannic acid, theophylline, tea essential oil, and various vitamins. It is more suitable to brew with water around 80°C. If you steep tea in high-temperature water in a vacuum flask for a long time, it's like simmering it 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 the massive seeping out 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.
Countermove: Use a different cup.
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. This is because after eating, gastrointestinal motility and blood circulation are strengthened. At this point, the body's ability to absorb smoke is at its "peak," making it easier for toxic substances in cigarettes to enter the body and thus increasing the damage to health.
Countermove: Quit smoking completely.
6: Excessive Alcohol Consumption
Deadly Reason: Heavy or frequent drinking can cause liver inflammation and enlargement, affecting the reproductive and urinary systems.
Countermove: If you're going to drink, you must first learn how to drink—
Best Types of Alcohol: There are white 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. Researchers have found that drinking red wine regularly can cut the risk of heart disease in half.
Best Time: It is safer to drink after 2 PM. In the morning, the concentration of alcohol dehydrogenase—the enzyme that breaks down alcohol in the stomach—is low. Drinking the same amount of alcohol in the morning leads to easier absorption and higher blood alcohol concentration, 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 you are emotionally agitated, especially for white liquor, to avoid harming 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 kg of beer, or 250 ml of whiskey. Although red wine is beneficial for health, it should not be consumed excessively; 2 to 3 glasses per 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, as these smoked and cured foods contain large amounts of pigments and nitrosamines. When they react with alcohol, they not only harm the liver but also damage the oral and esophageal mucosa and can even trigger cancer.
7: Excessive Coffee Consumption
Deadly Reason:
1. Reduces fertility. 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 a person who drinks five or more cups of coffee a day has twice the risk of heart disease compared to non-drinkers. The longer and more one drinks 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.
Countermove: Drink less.
8: Too Rich a Dinner
Deadly Reason: Insomnia caused by blood composition in the evening.
For office workers, dinner has almost become the main meal of the day. Breakfast depends on the "clock," lunch depends on the "schedule," and it's only in the evening that you can truly relax and sit down at the dining table for a hearty meal.
Countermove: First, eat dinner early. Eating dinner early can significantly reduce the incidence of urinary tract stones. Second, eat a light dinner. Dinner should be primarily vegetarian, rich in carbohydrates, and should include plenty of fresh vegetables. Minimize excessive intake of 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.