Greed - The Biggest Enemy of Health
"Greed" signifies excess. Habits like overeating, oversleeping, overindulging in alcohol, excessive playing, or even overdoing activities like watching or moving can have unexpected harms to one's health. As the saying goes, "Contentment brings lasting happiness." To preserve your health, you must stay away from the concept of "greed."
Greed for Food. Even short-term binge eating can cause harm to the entire body that lasts for years. Experts point out that high-fat, high-protein foods like meat are difficult to digest, and consuming too much can lead to obesity, coronary heart disease, diabetes, and other illnesses. Overeating can leave a person in a constant state of fatigue, slow down their reactions, and increase the risk of cancer. The correct approach is to stop eating when you feel you could go either way; be sure to chew slowly; eat at fixed times each day; spend at least 20 minutes per meal; and eat more foods like beans and konjac.
Greed for Alcohol. Once alcohol enters your system, the damage to your health is unavoidable. Overindulging in alcohol not only harms the liver but also leads to arteriosclerosis and high blood lipids, and it is a major trigger for stroke. If your tolerance for alcohol increases, you feel unwell and irritable after drinking less, or the first thing you think of upon waking up is to drink, you may have an alcohol dependency and need to seek medical help.
Greed for Sleep. Staying in bed all day on weekends and holidays can easily disrupt the body's biological clock, leading to a weakened immune system. Furthermore, the air in the bedroom is stale in the morning, and staying in bed for a long time can harm the respiratory system, which in turn impairs memory and hearing. Sleeping for too long causes excessive suppression of the cerebral cortex, leading to a decline in memory and comprehension; the regular pattern of heart activity and rest is also disrupted, affecting heart function. Generally, it is more appropriate for adults to sleep 7-8 hours a day, and for the elderly, an average of 6-7 hours. Those who tend to oversleep can set their alarm clocks a bit earlier to keep ringing and remind themselves to wake up.
Greed for Play. Staying up late playing games, all-night mahjong sessions, or continuous singing and dancing can easily lead to emotional problems like anxiety, depression, and irritability, and even symptoms like drowsiness, dizziness, and insomnia. Especially all-night card or mahjong games, combined with prolonged sitting and lack of movement, can lead to poor blood circulation, and in severe cases, even sudden death. To truly relax, you need to set time limits and stop when the time is up; don't push yourself when you feel tired and drowsy; people with high blood pressure, heart disease, or those who are older should最好 avoid recreational activities like mahjong that can cause large emotional swings.
Greed for Watching. Watching an average of more than 3 hours of TV a day can lead to "TV syndrome," with symptoms such as high blood pressure, neck strain, sore and heavy lower limbs, headaches, dizziness, insomnia, irritability, and skin rashes from static electricity on the face. Experts suggest that after watching TV or a computer for half an hour continuously, you must get up and walk around, rest your eyes with them closed, or massage the eye sockets; when watching, sit upright in a chair with a backrest, don't slouch, and definitely don't watch while lying down; it's best to open a window for ventilation when watching TV; wash your face and hands afterwards to keep your skin clean.
Greed for Exercise. Excessive exercise can be counterproductive. Excessive or intense physical activity burns a large amount of calories, causing metabolic substances like lactic acid to accumulate in the blood, leading to arrhythmia, affecting liver function, and causing muscle soreness. The key to preventing over-exercising is: don't exercise for more than 1 hour at a time, 3-4 times a week is sufficient; if you are still out of breath and exhausted 5 minutes after finishing your workout, it means you have overdone it; older people should wear shock-absorbing sports shoes when exercising; perform movements like squats slowly to prevent a rapid drop in blood sugar, which can cause blackouts and dizziness.