If you have a car, you are too lazy to walk; If you can take the elevator, you don’t have to climb the stairs; Online communication replaces face-to-face communication… All kinds of modern life have given birth to many “slackers”. The daily mail of the UK reported recently that a survey of nearly 10000 people in the UK showed that 86% of them had health problems that only occurred when they were 4 years older than their actual age. The reason is lack of exercise and obesity caused by laziness.
laziness spreads like a plague
Laziness is like an invisible plague, spreading wantonly all over the world. This year, the US Department of labor sounded the alarm to the public about laziness. The average working time of Americans has been decreasing for several consecutive years, while the time to sleep and watch TV is increasing. A resident health report in Italy pointed out that “lazy people” who do not take part in physical exercise or physical labor in their spare time account for 40.2% of the total national population, causing about 28000 people in the country to die of laziness related diseases every year. The British are even lazier. The survey shows that 64% of parents are too busy to play with their children, and 59% of office workers are too lazy to take the stairs, even if the office is on the second floor
The Chinese people are also becoming lazy, the most typical being “lazy to move”. According to the 2013 Beijing health and population health report released in June this year, the average daily static behavior time of Beijing residents aged 18-79 years was 5.7 hours in 2011. Experts point out that static behavior refers to activities such as working, studying, and entertaining in a sitting, leaning, or lying posture, in addition to sleeping. As long as it exceeds 4 hours a day, it will affect health. This problem is more prominent among adolescents aged 5 to 17.
laziness brings disaster to the whole body.
“There are three main types of laziness.” Professor Shen Zheng of the psychology department of Peking University told this reporter that one is psychological laziness, which is manifested as lack of goals, lack of ambition, and lack of ambition; The second kind is lazy thinking, lazy to think, and dependent on other people’s ideas; The third is laziness, knowing that something should be done, but delaying to do it, can not develop good living habits.
Laziness not only makes people accomplish nothing, but also affects their overall health. Professor Shen Yanying of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital pointed out that laziness can indirectly or directly cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, osteoporosis, cancer and other diseases. Chinese people are prone to laziness in the following aspects, with different forms and different consequences.
Too lazy to exercise will reduce your life. Who announced in 2013 that lazy exercise has become the fourth largest risk factor of death in the world. It is estimated that the global number of deaths due to this is as high as 3.2 million every year, and it is increasing year by year. Research shows that lack of exercise is easy to lead to obesity, with moderate obesity reducing life by 3 years and severe obesity reducing life by 10 years.
Those who are lazy to cook are prone to chronic diseases. Many people go to restaurants without bothering to cook. According to the survey of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and prevention, the fat and sodium intake in a meal outside the home exceeds the recommended intake for the whole day, and it is easy to suffer from a variety of chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and even tumors over time.
Lazy to eat breakfast, love to have heart disease. Domestic surveys show that nearly 40% of adults are lazy to eat breakfast. However, when you don’t eat breakfast, the brain will release signals that need high calories, leading to a large increase in the probability of taking junk food. It is easy for “three highs” to come to your door, resulting in a 27% increase in the risk of heart disease.
If you are too lazy to use your brain, you will easily become a fool. Research shows that people who do not like to use their brains are prone to premature memory decline and may suffer from cognitive impairment in old age.
I’m too lazy to brush my teeth. My throat is inflamed. Many people think that “it is not a big problem to brush less”. Unexpectedly, bacteria hidden in the mouth will also transfer to the throat, causing pharyngitis, pneumonia and other respiratory system inflammation.
Shen Yanying also pointed out that being lazy to clean up the house is prone to allergies, men are lazy to shave, which increases the risk of cancer, women are lazy to bask in the sun, which is prone to calcium deficiency, and when they are sick, they are lazy to go to the hospital to accelerate the deterioration of their condition. These are all common hazards of laziness.
four steps to overcome laziness
Shen Zheng said that from the perspective of social development, laziness may have promoted the progress of science and technology to a certain extent, but from the perspective of healthy life, laziness is harmful but not beneficial, and we must strive to overcome it.
Recognize the hazards. Laziness in behavior mostly comes from laziness in psychology and thinking. If you want to leave no room for laziness, you should first understand its harm to health and the positive significance of overcoming laziness. Only those who yearn for health and love life have enough motivation to overcome laziness.
Make a plan. If you want to overcome laziness, you must set specific and feasible goals. You can record your daily habits from morning to night, compare healthier lifestyles, find loopholes, and improve them. For example, for people who are lazy to exercise, we can see whether the amount of exercise in a day is enough and consider taking out a fixed period of time for exercise.
Challenge inertia. In the process of implementing the plan, don’t skip the things you don’t like, but do the difficult things first, and then do the slightly difficult ones. This is a strengthening of the previous actions. If you continue like this, you can abandon inertia.
Mutual supervision. It is better to establish a plan with your relatives and friends, implement it together, encourage and supervise each other, which is more conducive to persistence.
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