9 bad habits that shorten the lifespan of office workers

Bad habit 1: Not drinking enough water

Causes of death: Causes brain aging; induces cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases; affects kidney metabolic function.

Office workers easily forget to drink water due to their high concentration at work, which leads to insufficient water replenishment in the body. The body's water content decreases, the blood becomes more concentrated and the viscosity increases, which can easily lead to thrombosis, induce cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases, and affect the metabolic function of the kidneys.

Countermeasures: Drink more water and go to the bathroom frequently; but be aware that for some people with poor large intestine metabolism, it is best to drink water when you feel thirsty, so as to avoid further disorder of water metabolism in the body.

Bad habit 2: Fruit as staple food

Reason for death: It causes the human body to lack protein and other substances, leading to nutritional imbalance and even causing diseases.

Many office workers suffer from indigestion, high blood lipids, vascular sclerosis and other diseases caused by long-term sedentary work, which really need the nutrients in fruits to resolve. However, fruit cannot be used as a staple food. Because although fruits contain a variety of vitamins and sugars, they lack the protein and certain trace elements needed by the human body.

Countermeasures: First go online to check what foods are suitable and what are not suitable for your body type.

Bad habit 3: Eating raw food at banquets

Cause of death: Causes various parasitic diseases.

Salmon, geoduck, sea bass, mullet, sashimi, snake, turtle, crab and other foods that are the first choice of office workers at business banquets have a high chance of containing parasites and pathogens. In addition, in pursuit of delicious taste, chefs often do not cook them thoroughly, which can easily make you sick while enjoying the food.

Countermeasures: The active substances in raw vegetables and raw juice are close to the human body, which can keep the white blood cells in a normal state and restore the immune function damaged by eating cooked food. Considering these benefits, train your stomach first. After all, there are some things to pay attention to when eating raw food:

1. Drink fresh vegetable and fruit juice every day.

2. Mix the fresh vegetables in a cold dish, add vinegar as needed and a little salt.

3. People rely on cooked food to maintain their life activities. If they eat raw food such as fruits first and then cooked food, there will be no increase in white blood cell count.

4. Do not eat processed foods, such as canned foods and foods that have added preservatives, pigments, chemical raw materials and other processing agents.

Bad habit 4: brewing tea in a thermos cup

Reason for death: Destruction of vitamins and large amount of exudation of tannic acid and theophylline.

Tea contains a large amount of tannic acid, theacrine, tea oil and various vitamins. It is more suitable to brew it with water at about 80℃. If you use a thermos cup to soak the tea in high-temperature water for a long time, it will be like boiling it with a small amount of water. The vitamins in the tea will be destroyed, the tea oil will evaporate in large quantities, and tannic acid and theacrine will seep out in large quantities. This not only reduces the nutritional value of tea and reduces the tea aroma, but also increases the amount of harmful substances.

Countermeasure: Change the cup.

Bad Habit 5: Smoking after meals

Reason for death: It makes it easier for harmful substances in smoke to enter the human body.

Smoking one cigarette after a meal will cause more poisoning than smoking ten cigarettes at other times combined. After a meal, gastrointestinal motility increases and blood circulation speeds up. At this time, the body's ability to absorb smoke reaches its "optimal state". The toxic substances in the smoke enter the body more easily than usual, thereby aggravating the damage to human health.

Countermeasure: a comprehensive smoking ban.

Bad habit 6: Excessive alcohol intake

Cause of death: Drinking large amounts or frequently can cause inflammation and swelling of the liver, affecting the reproductive and urinary systems.

Countermeasure: If you want to drink, you must first learn how to drink.

The best types of wine include white wine, beer, and fruit wine. From a health perspective, red wine, one of the fruit wines, is the best. This is why the French have fewer heart diseases. According to researchers, drinking red wine regularly can reduce the risk of heart disease by half.

The best and safest time to drink is after 2 p.m. every day. Because the concentration of alcohol dehydrogenase, the enzyme that breaks down alcohol in the stomach, is low in the morning hours, drinking the same amount of alcohol is easier to absorb than in the afternoon, which increases the alcohol concentration in the blood. It causes serious damage to organs such as the liver and brain. In addition, you should not drink alcohol, especially white wine, on an empty stomach, before going to bed, when you have a cold, or when you are emotionally excited, so as to avoid cardiovascular damage.

Optimal drinking amount: The amount of alcohol a person weighing 60 kg is allowed to consume per day should be limited to less than 60 grams. Those weighing less than 60 kg should reduce their intake accordingly, and it is best to keep it at around 45 grams. Converted into various finished liquors, it should be: 50 grams of 60-proof liquor, 1 kilogram of beer, and 250 milliliters of whiskey. Although red wine is good for health, it should not be consumed in excess. 2 to 3 glasses a day is best.

The best side dishes, based on the metabolism of alcohol, are foods high in protein and rich in vitamins. Such as fresh vegetables, fresh fish, lean meat, beans, eggs, etc. Be careful not to eat salted fish, sausages, and bacon with alcohol, because these smoked foods contain a lot of pigments and nitrosamines, which react with alcohol and not only damage the liver, but also damage the oral and esophageal mucosa, and even induce cancer.

Bad Habit 7: Coffee Addiction

Reasons for death: 1. Reduce the pregnancy rate. 1. If a person drinks a cup of coffee every day, the pregnancy rate may drop by 50%; 2. It is easy to suffer from heart disease. Coffee contains high concentrations of caffeine, which can change heart function and increase cholesterol in blood vessels; 3. Reduce work efficiency.

American medical scientists have found that a person who drinks 5 cups or more of coffee a day has twice the risk of developing heart disease than a person who does not drink coffee. The longer the coffee drinker is and the more he drinks, the greater the possibility of developing heart disease. A survey of 858 people aged 45-69 who suffered their first myocardial infarction showed that those who drank more than 5 cups of coffee a day increased their risk of the disease by 70%.

Countermeasure: Drink less.

Bad Habit 8: Eating a Big Dinner

Cause of death: Insomnia in the blood in the evening.

For office workers, dinner has almost become the main meal of the day. You have to follow the schedule for breakfast and be active for lunch. Only at night can you really relax, sit down at the dining table and have a good meal.

Countermeasures: First, eat dinner early. Eating dinner early can greatly reduce the incidence of urinary tract stones. Second, dinner is important to eat. Dinner must be vegetarian, mainly composed of foods rich in carbohydrates, especially more fresh vegetables, and try to reduce the intake of excessive protein and fat foods. Third, eat less for dinner. It is generally required that the calories provided by dinner should not exceed 30% of the total calories of the whole day's diet.

Bad Habit 9: Skipping Breakfast

Reason for death: It seriously damages your stomach, making it impossible for you to work energetically and making you look older. After long-term tracking of 7,000 male and female subjects, researchers at the University of Erlangen in Germany found that 40% of people were accustomed to skipping breakfast, and their life expectancy was an average of 2.5 years shorter than that of the remaining 60%. And another university, in a study of 80-90 year olds, found that one of the common factors for their longevity was eating a hearty breakfast every day.

Countermeasures: Breakfast food should be delicious, appetizing, sufficient in quantity and of good quality; small in size, high in heat energy; and time-saving and labor-saving to prepare.

We know that different foods stay in the stomach for different lengths of time and cause different blood sugar responses. Under normal circumstances, a mixture of dry and liquid foods can stay in the stomach for 4-5 hours. However, due to its large volume, liquid foods make you feel full right after eating, but they stay in the stomach for a very short time. The nutrients in them are excreted before they can be fully digested, and the risen blood sugar level quickly drops and cannot last long. Therefore, when choosing food, you must pay attention to the combination of dry and liquid foods, and both meat and vegetables.