Including loneliness and smoking.. Bad habits shorten life

The specialized medical website eat this not that has finally published five habits that shorten years of your life, according to doctors, which are:

1- Sitting all day long

There is plenty of evidence linking prolonged sitting to a shorter life, even if you exercise regularly.

“The assumption has been that if you are fit and physically active, it will protect you, even if you spend a lot of time sitting every day... In fact, when you do, you are much less protected from negative health effects,” says Rebecca Seguin, assistant professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University. For being more sedentary than you realize...if you're in an office get up and move around a lot.

If you're retired and have more downtime, find ways to commute in and out of the home.

Move between TV programmes, take computer breaks and read, and be conscious of interrupting long sitting time.”

2- Not getting enough sleep

Studies show that not getting enough quality sleep is linked to a number of serious health conditions including diabetes and heart disease.

"No aspect of our biology has been left unscathed by sleep deprivation," says sleep scientist Matthew Walker, director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley. "It sinks into every nook and cranny."

However no one does anything about it.

Things must change;

In the workplace, our communities, our homes, and our families.

But when did you see an NHS poster in the UK urging people to sleep?

When did the doctor describe not sleeping pills, but sleep itself?

Priority must be given to this, and even stimulation.

Sleep loss costs the UK economy more than £30 billion a year in lost revenue, or 2% of GDP.

We can only double the NHS budget if we put in place policies to mandate or strongly encourage sleep.”

3- Smoking

Study after study has shown that cigarette smoking can shorten life span by more than ten years, says Dr. Timothy McAfee, “Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the United States...We need to do more to educate the American people about These results.

Women now lose about 11 years of life expectancy if they smoke.

Men lose about 12 years.

4- Stress and stress

Doctors warn that chronic stress can shorten life span at the cellular level, says Dr. Elisa Ebel, “Stress is now on the map as one of the most consistent predictors of a shorter telomere (a protective sheath at the end of a strand of DNA)...The type of stress determines the magnitude of its effect. .

So we can see this relationship between stress and cell aging across the lifespan, and it's fundamental to how we build.

Our minds are constantly looking for threats to our survival.

When we subject our bodies to years of chronic awakening to stress, we see effects that go beyond normal aging, making telomeres look like they're from a significantly older person.

And when we look at groups of people with psychiatric disorders related to dysregulated emotional responses, particularly depression, and compare them to controls who have never experienced these disorders, they have consistently shorter telomeres.”

5- Feeling lonely

Did you know that loneliness shortens life span by 15 years, says former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: “Loneliness and poor social relationships are associated with a reduction in lifespan similar to that caused by smoking 15 cigarettes a day and even greater than that associated with obesity... Loneliness also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, depression and anxiety.

At work, loneliness reduces performance, limits creativity, and impairs other aspects of executive function, such as thinking and decision-making.

For our health and our work, it is imperative that we tackle the epidemic of loneliness quickly.”