Anyone who works in the office is spending more than half of their life sitting. Day after day, week after week, years and decades go by and we realize we’ve spent most of our life in a position we were never meant to. Hence, poor posture, back problems, you name it.
But it’s far from the only common thing that’s silently and slowly doing more harm than good. “What common everyday things are slowly killing us?” someone posed a question on Ask Reddit, and the eye-opening responses started flooding in.
One by one, people shared things that we all take for granted although they may be destroying us in ways we never think about.
#24
Your lack of routine. Regularly staying up past midnight leaves your brain less time that it desperately needs to rest and repair itself, the strain can and will eventually catch up to you. Go to bed you crazies!
Edit: You guys seem curious about this so I'll go a bit more in-depth.
Your body functions like a machine, when it's not being used it performs maintenance. Your body naturally repairs itself while you sleep. Also, your body has certain internal clocks to indicate when the process should start.
One of them is a light indicator. Blue light is one of the most powerful light in the spectrum, and when your eyes absorb this blue light, your brain is able to decide if it is daytime or night time. However, blue light is emitted by other things (SUCH AS COMPUTER SCREENS). If enough blue lights is filtered through your eyes, your brain will think that it is still daytime when it is night you should be getting rest, that's why Apple has the night shift feature on its phones and computers.
The most important part of this isn't always how much you sleep, but you sleeping at the same time everyday. Your brain adapts around when you set a routine. If you have a routine in place, your brain is able to recognize that you are asleep and bring about repairs sooner and faster. If you don't have a routine it regularly will take your brain to realize that you are asleep and repairs slow.
tl;dr- Your body needs routine to be able to recognize when to heal
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36points
#25
Too much coffee. Stimulants like caffeine, in excess (more than 3 cups a day) ever so slowly f**k up the heart.
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35points
#26
Car exhaust. I very seriously believe that my children will look at me when i tell them we used to have tens-of-thousands of cars in cities, the way I looked at my mom when she explained that smoking around pregnant women were totally normal.
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32points
#27
Ozone pollution. recent new studies show living in a city is like smoking a pack or more of cigarettes a day...
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30points
#30
Brain power it takes to figure out what paper towels to buy. How the hell can I choose the best option? 6=8? 8=12? There go more brane sells!
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22points