6 Health-Destroying Habits You May Want to Immediately Quit
Live a longer, happier, and more energetic life
With a sea of articles talking about ways to improve your health, let’s talk about how to destroy it.
The rationale is simple — improving your health isn’t so much about doing new things as it is about avoiding some existing things.
Subtraction is more effective than addition here. It’s akin to a basket of apples — removing the rotten apples from a basket of healthy ones is better than constantly adding healthy apples to make up for the rotting ones.
With no further ado or analogies, let’s dive right into it.
Sleeping 4 to 5 Hours a Night
Be it pulling all-nighters or partying late into the night, the fact that people brag about being sleep-deprived is deeply concerning.
There’s nothing cool about sabotaging your health.
As this paper aptly titled ‘The Extraordinary Importance of Sleep’ describes, the effects of sleep deprivation are debilitating — cardiac risk, disrupted hormones, obesity, brain damage, and, in extreme cases, death.
A few bouts of Insomnia taught me this the hard way — now, sleep is somewhere…
