A healthy lifestyle is trendy, it's key to success and your financial well being. Fitness, diet (often including exotic foods) and all sorts of novelties like "miraculous" vitamins and "šlakovyvodâŝih" drugs-fun is not cheap. Though ... is it worth it?
Often it happens that in the pursuit of health you only run the risk of undermining it. Doctors and biologists told about "useful" things that need to be treated with great caution.
1. Hot Yoga
Strength training, stretching and cardio training in a room heated to 40 degrees.Risk: shift of joints, damage to the knees.
Why? Heat in the body of the "cooling" mechanism is included: increased blood flow, speeds up heart rate, sweat. They relax muscles, so that you feel more flexible than usual. If you overdo it (that in this situation it is likely), then you will not notice how will the joints, ligaments, or break or be damaged cartilage.
2. "natural" sugar
Honey, cane sugar or raw sugar, fructose, Agave Nectar-all this is offered in stores as an alternative to the "harmful" white sugar.Risk: gain weight.
Why? Funny, but all the "salt" is that the body does not distinguish "healthy" sugar from "unhealthy". They are in exactly the same way and in large quantities can damage the heart, raise pressure cause diabetes and obesity. It is sometimes said that "natural" sugar is sweeter, and hence its drink less. But it also more calories, but everything about this silent.
3. do not eat after six in the evening "
The motto of most people looking to lose weight. They believe that if not for the night, the Gorge will make the body healthier and will keep themselves in good form.Risk: loss of healthy sleep.
Why? Ideally, you want to eat for three hours before bedtime. If you haven't eaten any longer, it will lie down with the feeling of hunger, and then you will be not the beautiful dreams-and fall asleep-it will be tough. And, by the way, it's a myth that food affects sleep. For example, say that it is useful to eat a banana at night-he will help develop the "sleep hormone" melatonin. But the same will make any protein food, including Big
Mac. 4. herbal tea
Another "trick" slimming-BREW herbal teas instead of the usual tea and even instead of food or drink plain hot water with lemon. Perhaps it really helps to lose weight, but ...Risk: damage to tooth enamel.
Why? Acid contained in these drinks, slowly but surely, at the microscopic level is destroying fragile tooth enamel. Particularly dangerous in this sense, the lemon. Acid (in reasonable amounts) are not afraid of dishes, of course, if you don't eat them constantly throughout the day. But the "acid" teas that regularly p′ûtsâ "instead of" food is already outside the norm. Also remember that acidic Wednesday, breaking the enamel, is put in the mouth for at least another hour.
5. vitamins in hands
Millions of people drink vitamins and dietary supplements in the hope to strengthen the immune system and prevent seasonal diseases. But at best it's a waste of money. At worst you get ...Risk: gipovitaminoz (vitamin deficiency), a serious disease.
Why? Vitamins and minerals are useful only in a certain amount, and in most cases their daily dose we get regular food. Only a specialist can say (on the basis of analyses) which vitamin you lack, and how you should take them to fill rule.
Did you know for example that "strengthening immunity" zinc, you can reduce the amount of copper in the body, essential for red blood cells and bone health? Or that additives based on vitamin E increased the risk of heart disease and even cancer. So mindlessly accept them-the same as playing "Russian roulette" with their health.
6. "home" tooth whitening
The Internet is rich in wild recipes, which at first glance seem to be healthy. For example, "crush the strawberries mixed with lemon juice, add salt and used as toothpaste". Some teeth and truth become whiter, but not for long.Risk: yellow teeth without enamel.
Why? In fact, in such "pastes" only acid plus abrasives. About acid we have already figured out; Abrasives, as you might guess, also enemies of the enamel. First you sčiŝaete of plaque, which makes the teeth are darker, and then start the same clean off the protective enamel. After the regular session "whitening" appears yellowish solid fabric-dentin of the teeth, and you will lose the natural "white-teeth smile.
7. sleep Monitors
Smart devices for health ", as individual gadgets or mobile apps, are accurate only 30-35%. They know about the stages of sleep on your movements, whereas really it can only be determined by eye movements and brain activity.Risk: poor sleep.
Why? If you feel that you do not get enough sleep, or have doubts about the quality of your sleep, then concerns about testimony given on the monitor will only exacerbate the problem. Among other things, there is a more reliable way to test yourself-how you feel