10 Common Habits which are Killing Your Health Quietly

From eating junk food every second day to sleeping with makeup on your face at night, we all have a number of bad habits that we carry with unconsciously.

This small ignorance from our daily routine not only brings us some short-term damage but the bad impact on these habits stay with us for long. We all know many of the bad habits we carry in our daily life but ignore them. While there are many others about which we have no idea.

Here we have listed the top 10 habits that are seriously damaging our life and we need to stop doing them right now if we really want to live a healthy and happy life.

1- Sleeping Less Than 7 Hours:

If you are not sleeping for about 8 hours, each day, your health is at risk.

Most of us take it as a compliment for not sleeping more than 4 to 5 hours each day and spending most of the time in working. Many of us stay up even if we have a lot of work to finish the next day. We think that by doing so we are building our stamina and will end up being more productive. This thinking can mostly be found in the students who are struggling to get a good grade.

Beware! If you are not taking enough sleep each day you are racking your health. If you sleep less than 6 hours a day, continuously, the chances are high for your immune system to turn a week. It will also have a negative impact on other body functioning.

Your body will lose the ability to fight the external germs if your body has a weak immune system. In such situations, your body becomes more vulnerable to disease and infections. And you will get sick sooner and often. Thus science suggests sleeping at least for 8 hours a day to keep your inner self-healthy.

2- Negativity in Mind:

Nothing can harm you more than your own negative thoughts. To live a healthy and happy life, you need to stay positive in every way possible.

Positivity is not only good for your mental health but has a huge impact on your physical health. One must never stress on if they have limited friends or if they are facing some kind of problem in their life. All such situations are a part of life, if you are keeping yourself positive you might find a solution but if you tend to stay negative, you will come with no benefits.

You mental stress will have a direct impact on your physical health and will weaken your immune system.

3- Using Headphones for Long:

Today we can see almost every person wearing headphone, plugged in for hours. Either used for music or for taking a call during driving, headphones are one of the essential parts of our daily life. But only a few of us know that they are a big risk to our life.

The habit is really bad as it will cost you damage in your earbuds if you keep using headphones for a very long time. To avoid any damage to your sensitive eardrums, make sure you are not using the headphones for many hours.

Also, try to keep the volume audible enough so that you can hear the words correctly and effortlessly.

4- A Couch Potato:

Obesity is one of the major health issues, globally. Obesity is taking a considerable number of lives, each year and is also a root cause of life taking a disease like heart attack and diabetes.
And one of the root causes of obesity is lesser physical activity. No matter if it’s a long vacation or if it is the weekends, sitting in front of the TV, playing video games on the computer and laying on the couch for hours and hours is really bad for your health.

If you are sitting for hours and using these electronic devices, not only you will get infected with the radiations but will other health problem like eyes and heart disease and obesity. Apart from causing you such serious health issues this habit will make you lazy and can have a negative impact on other matters of your life.

Rather than becoming a couch potato one must adopt a healthy and active lifestyle. Indulge yourself in sports activities and have some walk and exercise as a part of your daily routine.

5- Heels:

Here the fashion lover might have some serious arguments with me and maybe they will lose a wish to read ahead but it is something that is damaging your health for real.

No matter how successfully you can carry yourself in high heels and how gorgeous they can make you look, but the fact remains the same that they are silent killers of your health. Wearing high heels every day make dispose you to early age back pain and other skeletal issues like tendon injuries, arthritis, and bone deformation.

Even after knowing all this, if you want to wear them, make sure that you are not wearing more than 1.5 inches.

6- Carry Heavy Bags:

This one again goes for girls. Every girl likes to look fresh all day, anywhere, anytime. For this reason, most girls love to carry everything they might need for this purpose.

But we must not do this at the cost of our health. If you are carrying an extra heavy bag with you all the time, your back and shoulders will be stressed. This habit can lead to long-term issues like neck and back pain and will lead to a posture problem as well. Thus, avoid taking that risk on your life and empty your bag from all the extra material that you have in it.

7- Sleeping with Makeup On:

It’s one of the most common problems the females face, specifically the working women. When they get back home after a hectic day at work, tired a lot they are normally they just want to hit their bed. Many do this without taking their makeup off.

This is a dangerous habit that hurt the skin and leads to serious skin damage like clogged pores, congested skin and spots etc.

Sleeping with eye makeup on is more dangerous than the face. As eyes are the most sensitive area on our face, sleeping with strong products can cause a damage to vision and eyes infection.

8- Eating with Empty-Full Stomach:

Your eating patterns define your health and predict your future. If you are not eating with a defined and proper pattern your stomach will stop sharing the signals of hunger, when it should. If it happens, you will eat even if you are not hungry, as a result, your body will get flooded with extra calories.

If we look at the modern food items they are also not healthy and getting our body stuffed with such food throughout the day it will have to cause us lasting health problems like heart disease, acidity and obesity and many others.

9- Avoiding Breakfast:

The saying to eat breakfast like a king is not without a good reason. Breakfast is the most important meal of a day and if you skip having a proper breakfast your metabolism will be affected negatively. It will also have a negative impact on the energy reserved in your body.

Here important to note is that if your breakfast is not healthy, you will not gain the benefits that you must earn by eating a breakfast. A healthy breakfast contains fats, proteins, and carbohydrates.

Dietitians may recommend you to skip your lunch (in some cases) but they never agree for skipping a healthy breakfast.

10- The Junk Food:

Thou, discussed throughout the discussion, junk food is the root cause of many health issues, but here necessary is to address the junk food in a separate slot.

Junk food is the root cause of many serious health issues, some of which are occurring globally e.g. obesity. Junk food is bad for our health but still, we consume it. If you are eating junk food every day or even two times a week, your body is at risk. Junk foods contain a high amount of preservatives, sugar, spice, and fats.

Eating lots of junk food can cause your health problems like stroke, high cholesterol, and diabetes etc. It is also found to harden the arteries and raise the level of plaque deposition in the body. This increased plaque in your body then leads to issues like heart attack and others.

Thus for a number of reasons the dietitians and health instructors refrain using junk food and adopting a healthy living style with a considerable amount of physical activities in our life.
If you are willing to live along and healthy life, you must take into consideration eliminating these habits from your lifestyle.

Khurram Zahid

This post was last modified on December 15, 2023 4:10 pm