Are you sitting down while reading this? Well that could
be shortening your lifespan.
Let’s be honest: From the moment we’re born, we’re all
dying just as we’re living. But certain mundane things we
do every day may actually be helping us get there faster.
None of this means we should even try to eliminate these
behaviors from our lives entirely, but it’s proof that
overdoing anything, even when seemingly innocuous, can
have serious impacts on our health. Below we’ve rounded
up 11 everyday things you’re probably doing that could
potentially shorten your lifespan.
1. You’re having a hard time finding love.
Having a difficult time finding a mate can shave off months
of your life, while being single for prolonged periods of
time could cost you a whole decade. A study found that
communities with gender ratios skewing significantly more
male or female caused the minority s*x to have shorter
lifespans. Even when exposed to short time frames of
competition, such as attending a high school entirely of one
gender, participants were found to have generally shorter
lives.
On top of all this, another study found that never getting
married could increase risk of death over a lifetime by 32
percent, and led to the previously mentioned loss of a
decade.
2. You’re sitting down for more than a few hours every
day.
Two whole years of your life could be cut just from sitting
more than three hours a day. Australian researchers found
that even regular exercise couldn’t deter the potential
negative effects of sitting for long stretches of time.
Another study published in the JAMA Internal
Medicine found that sitting for more than 11 hours a
day increased the risk of death by 40 percent over the next
three years, compared to sitting for under four hours a day.
Time to get that stand-up desk.
3. No Friends.
People with weak social connections were found to die at
much higher rates than their counterparts, according to
research. The same researchers found that prolonged
loneliness could be as bad for your lifespan as smoking 15
cigarettes a day.
On top of all this, elderly people with large circles of
friends were found to be 22 percent less likely to die over a
tested study period, and those social connections generally
promote brain health in aging brains.
4. You’re vegging out in front of your TV.
Watching just two hours of television a day can lead to an
increased risk of premature death, heart disease and Type 2
diabetes, according to Harvard researchers. The negative
effects of watching television seem to overlap with the
potential negative effects of sitting too much, but watching
television seems to make the negative effects of sitting even
worse. According to the New York Times, “every single
hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the
viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes.”
5. You’re eating too much unhealthy food.
Perhaps this sounds obvious, but the truth is that so many
of us continue to do it. As far as what foods to especially
avoid, eating red meat seems to shorten life expectancy by
as much as 20 percent when eating extra portions.
6. You’re still looking for a job.
Being unemployed can increase a person’s risk of
premature death by 63 percent. Other more specific studies
found that “the two factors most strongly associated with
higher death rates were smoking and not having a job.”
Another found that older people who lost their jobs during
the recession could have seen their lifespan decrease by as
many as three years.
7. You’re dealing with a long commute.
Commutes of about an hour have been found to increase
stress and have been linked to the same negative effects as
sitting. Long commutes also reduce the likelihood that
individuals will consistently participate in health related
activities. The greatest lifespan risk is with female
commuters, who were found to have significantly shorter
lifespans after consistently commuting for 31 miles or
more. The cause for the dip in female life expectancies has
been the topic of much speculation lately, but while the
Swedish research was able to link commuting to obesity,
insomnia and a higher rate of divorce, it wasn’t able to
pinpoint why female mortality rates are higher.
8. You’re having a dry-spell.
A study among men found that failing to climax for
extended periods of time can potentially cause your
mortality rate to be 50 percent higher than for those who
have frequent orgasms. This result was found even when
controlling for factors such as age, smoking, and social
class. On the opposite spectrum, orgasms have been linked
to quite a few additional health benefits.
9. You’re putting up with annoying co-workers.
Missing out on strong connections with your co-workers
can also potentially mean missing out on a longer life. Peer
social support, which could represent how well a participant
is socially integrated in his or her employment context, is a
potent predictor of the risk of all causes of mortality.
Although having feelings of encouragement coming from
bosses and managers didn’t seem to affect the subjects’
lifespans, those who reported feelings of low social support
at work were 2.4 times more likely to die over the study
period.
10. You’re not sleeping enough (or maybe too much?)
Harvard Medical School points out that research has shown
that life expectancies significantly decrease in subjects who
average less than five or more than nine hours a night.
Most of us suffer from too little rather than too much sleep,
but research suggests there truly is a sleep “sweet spot” —
at least if you’re primarily concerned about living for as
long as possible.
Chronic lack of sleep is associated with a greater risk of
cardiovascular disease, diabetes, some cancers, dementia,
cognitive and memory problems, weight gain and early
death. And some research shows that too much
(dramatically, unusually too much) regular sleep could be
problematic as well.
Research has also shown that we need an average of eight
hours to function optimally, but another, somewhat
controversial study found that getting more than seven
hours of sleep a night has been linked to shortened
lifespans.
11. You’re fearing death or that you won’t live for as long
as you’d like.
This is a painful paradox. A fear of a shortened lifespans,
or Thanatophobia, can potentially end up causing – a
shortened lifespan. A 2012 study on cancer patients ended
up finding that, “life expectancy was perceived as shortened
in patients with death anxiety.”
Outside of cancer patients, an intense fear of death can also
lead to a three to five times increase in the risk of
cardiovascular ailments, according to research on
Americans who feared death from another terrorist
attack following Sept. 11, 2001. Although a slight fear of
death has been shown to have positive benefits, like an
increase in exercise and healthy eating, the fear has been
shown to significantly affect lifespans, especially in
adults nearing the age of being considered elderly. These
effects can also be correlated to especially paranoid people
having weaker connections with society and increased
feelings of alienation – the negative effects of which were
both discussed above.
Source: Huffington Post

Some of what u posted there are features of an introvert, so are u saying all introvert will die young?.

Is someone fearin' death an introvert?...is someone not sleepin' enough an extrovert?...is someone veggin' on Tv an extrovert?...is someone eatin' too much unhealthy food an extrovert?

With all your points, that means everybody will die young

All u posted are nothing but "end time signs" where is end time signs? Come and prove urself.

antifat: Is someone fearin' death an introvert?...is someone not sleepin' enough an extrovert?...is someone veggin' on Tv an extrovert?...is someone eatin' too much unhealthy food an extrovert?

i said SOME of what u listed are the features of an introvert not ALL, maybe u need to read no 3 again sha.

If you ♥♥ ya life and want to live long, just put ya health & trust in God and...

I don't agree with you