As the saying goes, many people have great power. The same applies to some “saboteurs”. Some bad habits are related to each other. Once they are superimposed, the damage will not only double, but also painful to change. Life times specially invites authoritative experts to help you find out these “partners” who damage your health in life.
Interviewed experts:
Zuo Xiaoxia, director of Nutrition Department of PLA 309 hospital
Shen Yanying, Professor of China Health Education Center
drinking too much makes it difficult to quit smoking
“Light a cigarette and kill a glass of wine” is a necessary skill for many people at parties or social gatherings, but such a combination will double your harm. Recently, a new study in Poland showed that alcohol dependent people will quickly metabolize nicotine in their bodies, which may make it more difficult to quit smoking. In other words, it is more difficult for smokers to quit drinking.
The researchers selected 22 male smokers from the alcohol addiction treatment center and analyzed their urine samples after one week, four weeks and seven weeks of alcohol interruption to measure nicotine levels and metabolism. The results showed that even though these people did not change the number of cigarettes they smoked every day, the nicotine content in their bodies was significantly decreased.
Alcoholism can paralyze and inhibit people’s central nervous system and cause alcoholism. When tobacco burns, it will produce more than 300 harmful chemicals, including many carcinogens. However, few people combine the harm of the two.
The study explains that alcoholism will accelerate the metabolism of nicotine in the human body, and a person with faster nicotine metabolism will hope to smoke again faster. It can be seen that tobacco and alcohol are indeed a pair of “twin brothers” harmful to health.
In Shen Yanying’s view, not only that, but also the ethanol in wine and nicotine in tobacco have exciting effects. The combination of the two is far more powerful than simple drinking and smoking. If it is light, it will accelerate the heart rate, affect the blood circulation and damage the digestive function; More importantly, it will weaken the body’s resistance, reduce the body’s metabolism of alcohol and nicotine, and then cause a vicious circle.
4 groups of “partners” accelerated physical damage
In fact, in our daily life, there are many bad habit combinations of “going out and getting in”, which are eroding our health doubly.
1 spicy and salty food
“People’s taste buds are habitual. People with heavy tastes have low sensitivity to taste buds. They feel that ordinary diet has no taste, and naturally eat more spicy and salty.”
Shen Yanying said that eating too much spicy food regardless of region or season can easily over stimulate the appetite, causing people to overeat or even overeat. If you eat too much, your salt intake will inevitably exceed the standard, which will lead to obesity and “three highs”.
2 love to eat sweet and get tired
Sweet biscuits, cakes, bread, snacks… Sweet foods with rich flavor and sweet taste often need to add a large amount of oil and sugar. People who love sweetness usually have a high intake of fat and are bound to eat more greasy.
Shen Yanying said that eating a lot of oil and sugar will lead to excess calories in the body, and obesity and chronic diseases will follow. Zuo Xiaoxia also said that it is easy to form a sweet loving constitution by eating sweets regularly, and gradually lose resistance to sweets, forming a vicious circle.
3 sleep late and exercise less
Studies have shown that sleeping too much can make the body “Drowsy” and lead to mental depression. It will also reduce the speed of metabolism and affect the discharge of wastes accumulated in the body.
It is said that “life lies in exercise”, but modern people are under great pressure at work. They don’t get up on weekends if they don’t sleep until the third stroke of the day, resulting in a situation of “lazier and lazier when they sleep”. In the long run, the physical quality will become worse and worse, and it will be easier to be targeted by diseases.
4 “house” and irregular meals
In Shen Yanying’s view, the most common problem of “curtilage” people is that they can’t have three meals at a time, and they are not hungry. When they are hungry, they basically eat some instant noodles and snacks. In the long run, it is easy to suffer from malnutrition and lack of trace elements.
4 “Prescriptions” to help you break bad habits
If you want to resist the attack of the above bad habit “combination boxing”, in addition to reasonable diet, moderate exercise, smoking cessation and alcohol restriction, and psychological balance in your daily life, you may as well try the following suggestions:
limit alcohol before quitting smoking
In the process of quitting smoking, the most painful thing is that you can’t help “smoking again”, and alcohol is the “culprit” that makes you unable to get rid of your smoking addiction. Therefore, if you want to quit smoking, you must limit alcohol. At the same time, when smoking comes, you can take 10 deep breaths, drink a cup of tea, chew gum, and chat with others.
change heavy taste by times
Reducing salt and spicy is a process. Research shows that the taste will gradually lighten after four weeks. In addition, when cooking at home, condiments such as vinegar, mustard, scallion, ginger, garlic and onion are used to increase the taste, and condiments such as monosodium glutamate, soy sauce and pepper are used or not used to reduce the amount of salt used.
find some food substitutes
When you want to eat sweet food, you may as well replace it with fruit, yogurt, nuts, etc., which can not only fill your stomach, but also timely supplement the nutrients required by the human body every day.
Don’t often sleep in. Generally speaking, it is appropriate to sleep 7-8 hours a day. If you always feel that you don’t get enough sleep, it’s not the sleep time that should be changed, but the sleep cycle. Try going to bed early every night. Or drink a glass of milk and soak your feet in warm water before going to bed.
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