World Health Day: 10 daily habits that are ruining your health

Every year World Health Day is celebrated across the globe to create awareness about health and fitness. From healthcare experts and caregivers to medical experts, everyone actively promotes good health, prevention, and care.

More often, it is your lifestyle and daily habits that lead to bad health. Here are such 10 daily habits that ruin your health.

Excessive use of electronic gadgets

Excessive screen time can certainly ruin your health as it affects your eyes, neck, and overall body posture. Moreover, it also makes you sit for a longer time which is very bad for your health.

Less sleep

A sleep-deprived body can get tired easily. When you sleep less the toxins in your body are not fully flushed out which is why your chances of getting a disease or an infection increase manifold.

Going on binge eating

Eating different types of heavy meals including fried and spicy food items can put huge pressure on your digestion system and it can lead to an increase in bad cholesterol, heart diseases, and also impair liver and kidney functioning.

Excessive smoking and alcohol consumption

Excessive consumption of alcohol or smoking kills thousands of people every year. It has been the leading cause of mouth, throat, liver, and lung cancer and hence should be avoided as much as possible.

Sitting for long hours

Long hours sitting increases the risk of heart disease and lately has been termed silent cancer by many health experts.

Eating refined sugar and refined flour

Eating both refined sugar and flour is very bad for health. Most of the popular food items that are relished by the masses contain refined flour and sugar. But daily consumption of these two items damages your health in the long run.

Excessive salt

The body requires sodium in a small amount. However, using table salt frequently or food items like pickles and papads in a daily meal can cause sodium imbalance and increase your blood pressure levels.

Large meals

You must always check what you eat and how much. More often, having large meals during lunch or at weekend parties at night is quite normal. But these large meals can spike your blood sugar levels.

Eating very fast

Eating very fast without chewing the food properly leads to indigestion and other issues like bloating, abdominal pain, and acidity.

Eating just before bedtime

The digestive system needs some time to break your food and digest it. If you have a habit of eating just before bedtime, it is extremely bad for your digestion and overall health.

Health experts advise that you must have dinner at least 1.5 hours before going to bed.