Nowadays, the hectic schedule and lifestyle bringing too many diseases and problems to your health at a relatively very young age. The routine and daily life have messed up so much that we don’t get time even for ourselves. Spending late hours at the office and in traffic takes more than half of the day. Our routine which we follow everyday decides a lot. These routines become our habits. Some are good, while some are bad. There are various things we are doing every day that we are not aware of, are slowly killing us. Let us check a few of them.
1. Skipping Breakfast
How many times we have done that we woke up late for an office and in a hurry, the first thing we skip is our food, our breakfast. We all have heard that “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper”. But what we are doing? We are skipping the most important thing, Breakfast and having dinner like a King. This leds to consume more calories at night which makes us more stressed.
2. Eating Food When We Are Not Hungry
The first thing first, when we skip breakfast, we tend to have food when we are not that much hungry. Even our foodie habits get changed and we intake too many fast foods and calories which has severe impacts on our body and also leads to chronic overeating. There are various food items that are slowly killing us.
3. Coffee Intake
How many cups of coffee do you drink while at the office? Excess of everything is bad. Coffee contains caffeine. Caffeine can increase anxiety and also insomnia. This article contains tips on how to lessen anxiety.
4. Cracking Your Neck
Sitting in front of the computer for long leads to stiffness in the body. Most of the time we crack our fingers and even our neck to remove that stiffness from the body. But cracking your neck too often may lead to stroke and a serious neck injury. While the best practice we can follow is don’t sit continuously in front of your machine for long. Do walk after every couple of hours.
5. Having Painkillers
Sometimes because of our lifestyle, we do suffer many body pains. To get rid of that pain, we take painkillers. But do you know these painkillers also have various side-affects on your body? Drugs like aspirin can increase the risk of high blood pressure, ulcers, gastrointestinal bleeding, and even heart attacks.
6. Nail Biting
Many times when we watch any sports, be it cricket, wrestling, basketball, tennis or football, we see many exciting and thrilling moments in the match. Even commentators call it a nail-biting match. But, do you even know how many germs and bacteria your fingers get in contact with? This can also lead to stomach infection.
7. Spending Time Alone
Sometimes spending time alone is a good thing. As per the study in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, spending too much time alone can lead to a risk of early mortality.
8. Excess Watching Television
As per American Heart Association cardiologist Nisa Goldberg, “Watching television is a passive, sedentary activity, and certainly, people who do it for hours are not paying attention in terms of their lifestyle and in terms of their diet.” Watching Television more than three hours a day doubles the risk of early death.
9. Spending More Than You Earn
These credit cards can put you on stress, too much stress. The best practice is to spend wisely and spend only what you earn. Because the stress of credit cards bills fastens your aging process.
These are the various things we do, which are slowly killing us and we are not giving it thought on it. Remember, Life is one. Follow good practices with proper routine can give you a healthy and stressfree lifestyle.
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