The document discusses common unhealthy habits and their detrimental effects on health, including binge drinking, smoking, a sedentary lifestyle, fast food consumption, overeating, and skipping breakfast. Each of these habits contributes to various health issues such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. It emphasizes the importance of making healthier choices to avoid long-term health costs.

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From candy jars to happy hour cocktails, missed workouts and lack of sleep due to
juggling stressful situations, bad health habits are easy to pick up. Each one in its own instance
isn’t so bad, but when they pile on top of each other, you quickly can find yourself in a cycle of
unhealthy habits. The problem with bad health habits is that they’re easy to include into your
lifestyle, but hard to move away from when you realize how much they’re costing your health.
Here are some of the worst habits and how they impact your health and life in general.
1. Binge drinking
This one should have gone without mentioning it here but there are many people who cannot
rid themselves of the habit of binge drinking even when they know its side effects. Binge
drinking is not good for your health as it can cause long term problems in your liver and heart
and can also cause immediate problems such as feeling dizzy, gaining weight and getting
fatigued more easily. If you want to keep away from these problems, the only way out is by
staying away from drinking.
2. Smoking
Usage of tobacco products of any kind is dangerous because it harms both, the smoker and
people who surround him. Every 13 seconds in the world dies a personbecause of smoking.
After smoking, nicotine, which is an integral part of all tobacco products, immediately enters
the blood vessels through lung alveoli. Moreover, the smoke of tobacco also contains many
toxic substances, including combustion products of tobacco leaves and substances used in
processing, such as carbon monoxide, hydrocyanic acid, hydrogen sulphide, carbon dioxide,
essential oils, ammonia, tobacco tar.
3. Being a couch potato
It’s vacation time or the weekend and we stay glued to the TV, but often without thinking how
harmful that habit can be in the long run. If you spend many hours in front of the TV seat, you

3. are more prone to problems of the heart and eyes. Also, the habit can increase your risks of
heart disease, stroke and even obesity.
4. Eating too much fast food
A steady diet of double cheeseburgers and fries washed down with milkshake often leads to a
bigger waistline and other related health problems, like heart disease and diabetes. Trans fat,
often found in fast food, raises 'bad' cholesterol and blood fats that contribute to hardening of
the arteries, as well as firing up inflammation, which contributes to the build-up of fatty mass in
artery walls.
5. Eating even when not hungry
If your eating pattern isn't set, your body's hunger signals will not come when they should. This
way, you can eat even when you are not hungry. If you do this often, your body is flooded with
extra calories. Often, the foods one binges are not healthy either. So, this habit can take a
serious toll on one's health by causing problems such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, acidity
and so on!
6. Skipping breakfast
Skipping the first meal of the day can have serious consequences for your weight, your energy
levels, and even your blood sugar. Munching a piece of morning toast or crunching a bowl of
bran flakes signals to your metabolism that it's time to kick things up a notch. Skipping the fuel
keeps your metabolism running on low, which can lead to weight gain. You'll also create a
starve-now-indulge-later eating pattern, which is why breakfast-skippers tend to overeat later
in the day.
If you don’t make the time and effort now to make healthy choices, it’s going to cost
you in the long run in the form of poor health, doctor bills and not living as long as you’d like. If
you spend the time, effort and money now to eat healthy, exercise and adopt good habits, then
you’re setting yourself up to live a richer and longer life. It’s either do it now, or pay the price
later.