By Carl Preston
For many of us,
the idea of being able to live forever is one thing we never really stop
believing until the day that we die. The problem is that many of us also have
lifestyles that encourage a shorter lifespan and can actually reduce our time
to come to grips with mortality. For anyone in this position, we recommend that
you consider these ten lifestyle choices that many of us are making that
actually puts each and every one of us in a position whereby we could be
drastically shortening our own lifespans, even if it seems pretty healthy!
1. Living Alone
Humans need
interaction; we need love in our lives. If we want to find that love, though,
we have to be able to get out here and find it. Those who take the easy
“stress-free” option of living alone are actually limiting the happiness and
enjoyment that we can get from the world. Never sharing love and intimacy with
another person is a sure-fire way to reduce your lifespan by a considerable
margin.
2. Sitting Too Often
Do you work at a
PC? Then you need to consider the importance of standing up and getting a bit
more rest. It’s estimated by the JAMA Internal Medicine study hat sitting for
more than 11h per day increases the risk of death by up to 40% over the next
three years alone! This is something that you need to consider moving forward,
so if you need to get a stand-up desk you should!
3. Lack of Social Life
Neglecting our
friends and loved ones for solitary time isn’t always a bad thing; we all need
our own personal space. However, taking the time that is needed to have a
social life can improve our lifespan! Likewise, failing to do so increase our
chances of passing on early. Prolonged loneliness can have the same negative
health effects of having 15 cigarettes a day!
4. TV loving
Many of us love
to spend our time sitting in front of the TV and just zoning out, vegging there
for hours to come. This can bring on things like diabetes and even heart
disease. According to the NY times, every single hour of TV you watch after
being 25 reduces your lifespan by around 21 minutes. That’s quite the state,
but it’s something you really need to consider moving forward with your life if
you want to live healthily.
5. Taking Extended time off
You might think
that quitting your job or going for a gap year could be a good thing but it’s
actually quite unhealthy for the body. Your mind will get rested, sure, but you
will find that premature death is far more common if you are taking that time
off due to the serious inactivity that your body will be going through when
moving forward.
6. Helping Annoying People
Being the kind
member of the workforce who helps out that annoying colleague might seem like a
great idea, but how do you come to terms with the stress that they cause you?
Putting yourself through the mill just to be nice might seem like a sacrifice
that’s worth it for karma points, but it really isn’t if it’s driving you up
the wall! This can put you into stressful situations you really had no
reason to be involved in.
7. Sleeping In
The worst thing
that you can do for your sleeping pattern is getting used to sleeping more than
eight hours on a regular basis. It’s unhealthy for the body so even if you can
get those extra hours, limit yourself to 7 hours at the most.
8. Exercising Too Much
The last thing
that you want to do is lessen your lifespan but unfortunately going through too
much exercise in a week can do this to you. Just go to a doctor and get them to
give you an idea of what you should be taking on exercise wise as it will give
you much better ideas about how you can improve your health and your quality of
life in general – just remember that seemingly being too healthy and exercising
too much is going to make a marked difference to your overall lifespan moving
through life.
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