Health Impact Wealth From candy jars to happy hour cocktails, missed workouts and lack of sleep due to juggling stressful situations, bad health habits are easy to pick up. Each one in its own instance isn’t so bad, but when they pile on top of each other, you quickly can find yourself in a cycle of unhealthy habits. The problem with bad health habits is that they’re easy to include into your lifestyle, but hard to move away from when you realize how much they’re costing your health. Here are some of the worst habits and how they impact your health and life in general. 1. Binge drinking This one should have gone without mentioning it here but there are many people who cannot rid themselves of the habit of binge drinking even when they know its side effects. Binge drinking is not good for your health as it can cause long term problems in your liver and heart and can also cause immediate problems such as feeling dizzy, gaining weight and getting fatigued more easily. If you want to keep away from these problems, the only way out is by staying away from drinking. 2. Smoking Usage of tobacco products of any kind is dangerous because it harms both, the smoker and people who surround him. Every 13 seconds in the world dies a personbecause of smoking. After smoking, nicotine, which is an integral part of all tobacco products, immediately enters the blood vessels through lung alveoli. Moreover, the smoke of tobacco also contains many toxic substances, including combustion products of tobacco leaves and substances used in processing, such as carbon monoxide, hydrocyanic acid, hydrogen sulphide, carbon dioxide, essential oils, ammonia, tobacco tar. 3. Being a couch potato It’s vacation time or the weekend and we stay glued to the TV, but often without thinking how harmful that habit can be in the long run. If you spend many hours in front of the TV seat, you
are more prone to problems of the heart and eyes. Also, the habit can increase your risks of heart disease, stroke and even obesity. 4. Eating too much fast food A steady diet of double cheeseburgers and fries washed down with milkshake often leads to a bigger waistline and other related health problems, like heart disease and diabetes. Trans fat, often found in fast food, raises 'bad' cholesterol and blood fats that contribute to hardening of the arteries, as well as firing up inflammation, which contributes to the build-up of fatty mass in artery walls. 5. Eating even when not hungry If your eating pattern isn't set, your body's hunger signals will not come when they should. This way, you can eat even when you are not hungry. If you do this often, your body is flooded with extra calories. Often, the foods one binges are not healthy either. So, this habit can take a serious toll on one's health by causing problems such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, acidity and so on! 6. Skipping breakfast Skipping the first meal of the day can have serious consequences for your weight, your energy levels, and even your blood sugar. Munching a piece of morning toast or crunching a bowl of bran flakes signals to your metabolism that it's time to kick things up a notch. Skipping the fuel keeps your metabolism running on low, which can lead to weight gain. You'll also create a starve-now-indulge-later eating pattern, which is why breakfast-skippers tend to overeat later in the day. If you don’t make the time and effort now to make healthy choices, it’s going to cost you in the long run in the form of poor health, doctor bills and not living as long as you’d like. If you spend the time, effort and money now to eat healthy, exercise and adopt good habits, then you’re setting yourself up to live a richer and longer life. It’s either do it now, or pay the price later.