4 bad habits (四個不)

 

睡眠不足,

早餐不吃,

坐著不動,

怒氣不消, (憂慮不止)

實在不好.

May the Lord preserve your whole being - spirit, soul and body. (where is this verse?)

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Subject: 4 habits that are making you sick (really sick!)

1. What happens when I only sleep five hours?
Sleep too little, and there's a good chance you'll be soon overeating. Too little sleep also makes your body less sensitive to insulin.

Research shows that sleeping too little shuts down production of certain chemicals in the immune system that defend your body against germs. A 2009 study found that people who sleep less than seven hours a night are up to three times more likely to develop a cold.

Other studies show that even modest sleep deprivation - cutting back from your usual eight hours a night to six hours, for instance - can turn up levels of chronic inflammation, which increases the risk for many conditions, including heart attacks, strokes, and osteoporosis.

Studies show that well-rested people learn new information faster and have sharper memories. Short sleep reduces your reaction time, too, making you at risk for car accidents and other mishaps.

2. What happens when I skip breakfast?
If you don't eat breakfast and head out the door with low blood sugar, one organ in particular won't be operating at full speed: your brain, which requires a steady flow of blood sugar to run effectively.

Most people more than compensate for the calories they miss at breakfast by overeating at lunch and dinner - especially foods high in saturated fat, the kind that plugs arteries.

Eat breakfast regularly and you'll not only lose weight, but your blood sugar should shape up, too.

3. What happens when I spend the day sitting around?
Over time, a sit-around lifestyle encourages two major problems:

* Your body converts some unused sugar to fat. Research shows that fat cells around the waistline produce chemicals that cause insulin resistance and low-grade inflammation, which promotes heart disease and other conditions.

* Having lots of glucose lingering in the blood increases levels of dangerous compounds called AGEs that damage nerves and blood cells. That's why high blood sugar causes diabetes complications such as blindness and kidney disease.

4. What happens when I spend the day really angry?
Anger is a form of emotional stress, which causes your body to release adrenaline and other related hormones.

A recent Yale study found that people who tend to let their anger stew also have high levels of a substance called endothelin, which is known to trigger heart attacks by causing plaques in the arteries to burst open and form blood clots.

Day-long anger can be toxic, so find a way to let it go. 

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