Use this time to read, listen to music or take a bath. When you smoke, you deprive your heart and blood of oxygen, which is vital for your body to function. Smoking also ignites the growth of plaque in your arteries. As plaque builds, it can block your arteries which may cause a blood clot.
If the clot is big enough, it can block blood flow through your artery. This results in a heart attack or stroke. Drink alcohol. Drinking excessively or consistently over time hurts your heart.
The AHA recommends not exceeding two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women. The more alcohol you consume, the higher your risk is for increased blood pressure and stroke.
Adults should aim for at least minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity, such as brisk walking, each week, plus 2 or more days of muscle-strengthening activity or 75 minutes of vigorous activity e. You know that falling short on sleep is a major no-no, but why-what's the big deal? Research shows that not getting enough shut-eye can impact a whole slew of things: it can compromise your immune system, your judgment and ability to make decisions you are also more likely to make mistakes and your heart health.
Being sleep-deprived may fuel depression and make it harder for you to lose weight if you're dieting-and more likely that you'll give in to that sweet temptation tomorrow. Aim to get around 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night, although there is no magic number, says the National Sleep Foundation, so listen to your body and try to get the amount of sleep that your body needs to function at its best. Eat these 9 foods to help you sleep better. Americans, on average, eat about 1, mg more sodium each day than we should.
One of the easiest ways to cut your sodium intake is to cook at home using fresh ingredients. Restaurant foods and processed foods both tend to be very high in sodium. To trim your sodium intake even further, try boosting the flavor of food cooked at home with herbs and spices rather than salt.
More and more food labels are sporting health benefits on their labels. If such claims lure you in, know that just because a product lacks fat or gluten or carbs doesn't necessarily mean it's healthier. For example, fat-free products often deliver more sugar than their counterparts and many full-fat options are the healthier choice.
Avoid being duped by a healthy-sounding label claim by comparing the Nutrition Facts Panels and ingredient lists across brands of the same food category. It's worth stating that some of the healthiest foods at the grocery store don't have any packaging or branding like fruits and vegetables.
It's all too easy to munch on your midday meal desk-side, but according to research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , you'll feel more satisfied and will rein in that temptation to binge midafternoon if you turn your attention toward your meal.
Study participants who ate lunch without distractions felt fuller 30 minutes after eating, and ate less when they snacked later, than people who played solitaire on a computer during their midday meal learn more about eating mindfully and how it can help you. Related: Healthy Lunches to Pack for Work. Even though olive oil is packed with heart-healthy antioxidants called polyphenols and monounsaturated fats, there are times when it's not the best choice for cooking.
Millions of people follow an unhealthy lifestyle. Hence, they encounter illness, disability and even death. Problems like metabolic diseases, joint and skeletal problems, cardio-vascular diseases, hypertension, overweight, violence and so on, can be caused by an unhealthy lifestyle. The relationship of lifestyle and health should be highly considered.
Today, wide changes have occurred in life of all people. Malnutrition, unhealthy diet, smoking, alcohol consuming, drug abuse, stress and so on, are the presentations of unhealthy life style that they are used as dominant form of lifestyle. Besides, the lives of citizens face with new challenges. For instance, emerging new technologies within IT such as the internet and virtual communication networks, lead our world to a major challenge that threatens the physical and mental health of individuals.
The challenge is the overuse and misuse of the technology. Therefore, according to the existing studies, it can be said that: lifestyle has a significant influence on physical and mental health of human being.
There are different forms of such influences. Consanguinity in some ethnicity is a dominant form of life style that it leads to the genetic disorders. Reformation of this unhealthy life style is a preventing factor for decreasing the rate of genetic diseases 2.
In some countries, the overuse of drugs is a major unhealthy life style. Iran is one of the 20 countries using the most medications.
They prefer medication to other intervention. Pain relievers, eye drops and antibiotics have the most usage in Iran. While self-medications such as antibiotics have a negative effect on the immune system, if the individual would be affected by infection, antibiotics will not be effective in treatment.
Overall, 10 percent of those who are self-medicated will experience severe complications such as drug resistance. Sometimes drug allergy is so severe that it can cause death 4. Finally, variables of lifestyle that influence on health can be categorized in some items:. Poor diet and its consequences like obesity is the common healthy problem in urban societies. Unhealthy lifestyle can be measured by BMI. Urban lifestyle leads to the nutrition problems like using fast foods and poor foods, increasing problems like cardiovascular 5.
Exercise: For treating general health problems, the exercise is included in life style 6. The continuous exercise along with a healthy diet increases the health.
Some studies stress on the relation of active life style with happiness 7 , 8. Sleep: One of the bases of healthy life is the sleep. Sleep cannot be apart from life. Sleep disorders have several social, psychological, economical and healthy consequences.
Lifestyle may effect on sleep and sleep has a clear influence on mental and physical health 9. Sexual behavior: Normal sex relation is necessary in healthy life. Dysfunction of sex relation is the problem of most of societies and it has a significant effect on mental and physical health.
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