Drinking alcohol.
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I bring this up all the time, especially with Menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars being in the news recently because the FDA missed its own deadline for banning them. They specifically mention the flavor bans are because children like flavors, WTF, you gonna ban a coughdrop-tasting cigarette but still sell me Cotton Candy Vodka? How fucking hypocritical.
Agreed, especially young adults who get drawn to it thinking "drinking is cool" or something you do when you become an adult, that, has to stop.
Beyond that, getting drunk has become a "fun" event when you're young or hanging out with friends. It is also so prevalent in movies and tv..
Alcohol is way more ingrained into society though, we've been getting drunk for most of human history!
Anger. People love to be angry. That especially love righteous anger.
It's extremely stressful and stress is not great for you. I mean stress like exercise can be, but raging out because your drive through order was wrong probably isn't.
Now I love that one, I do agree people need to be more chill these days, high amount of stress can really be damaging to health long-term.
Fast food and poor diet in general, soda included. Just like cigarettes, if you just smoke one or two every now and then there aren't going to be significant effects. However when you use it habitually over years it can take a serious toll on your body.
Sedentary lifestyle. Humans are made to be moving. Even if you're just walking 30 minutes a day you're OK. But a lot of people just move from bed -> kitchen seat -> car seat -> work seat -> kitchen seat -> couch -> bed. This is just as bad, if not worse, than smoking over the long term.
Risky sexual behavior. This is prevalent especially in gay men. Having sex with dozens of (or more) partners a month. You can use condoms and safe sex all you want, you're still probably going to catch diseases just from sheer volume. Chlamydia and Gono are the least of your concerns - those at least can be easily treated. Plus that's not considering the other things that usually come with it - drugs, staying up late, meeting in vulnerable places with people you don't know very well, etc.
Reckless driving. People texting and driving, or tailing others on the highway, tipsy/drunk driving. It can be a lot worse for you than smoking... all it takes is one small mistake to send you to space - along with any other lucky individuals that happened to cross your path that day
Excessive sun exposure without using sunscreen. Skin cancer isn't fun, and a lot of people just don't feel the need even though they're out and about in the sun all day.
Sugar
White sugar ESPECIALLY, just like the white bread, people, please go for ~~brown sugar~~ jaggery, wheat bread, the white ones are worse for health and very processed.
I can't even get unrefined brown sugar. Only refined brown sugar which is just white sugar with molasses added back in. That said, it's a myth that brown sugar is 'healthier' for you. The amount you need to actually see a 'benefit' still means it's horribly bad for your body's it's best to eat natural sugars from fruits and stay away from anything manufactured/processed.
I've recently cut out sugar and breads and all dairy. It's so damn hard...
Actually as an indian, I made a stupid mistake of suggesting brown sugar, which is as you said, nowadays refined and processed in some way as well.
What I WILL suggest is, jaggery
This is what I actually have been using recently for a good while now, brown sugar is up there for back up, been a long time since I actually used it.
Also consider using alternative sweeteners, like Monk Fruit sweetener.
The best thing is simply exclude simple carbs. Jaggery or wheat bread still contain lots of simple carbs, and not much healthier. The glycemic index of gaggery and suggar, for example, are about the same.
It can be actually counterproductive to think that jaggery or wheat bread is healthier and it it more because of it.
Unfortunately for the average person practically, sweet is something that is needed in a lot of places, like Tea or coffee, or other sweets, and in such cases, jaggery is way way better than use of white sugar.
And of course, eating too much of sweet, overdoing it, now that is a whole other topic but that can be applied to almost everything, overdoing is never good, and we should always keep it at a limit.
Sweet is not needed, but wanted. There is difference.
very nice to hear, but unrealistic out there in the real world, for most people out there, they'd probably not eat something if it either doesn't have a little bit of sweet or spice in it, depending on what food it is. It's a major addition to the food's flavour and edibility, if I am making sense here, for example: You can drink a chai with no sweet, but it will be terrible, it won't be good without alteast a little bit of sweet.
So yes, it is not needed but wanted technically, but that really don't matter when taste is something people give importance too.
And you need to understand, there are some food dishes that are mean't to be sweet or spicy to a certain level, that's just how they are made. Again, can you make them without the sweet or spice? yes, but will it taste just as good? Probably not, and that's being conservative.
So there is nothing wrong in using sweet or having a bit of spice, as long as both is done in moderation, and for that, using something like jaggery is way better than white sugar.
Did you even try to do that? It is not that hard. I live on keto/lazy keto for about 10 years and will never go back.
It is not that hard especially once you study the topic and understand how much damage you do with this diet. Humans were not evolved to be able to handle this much amount of processed food with super easy to digest simple carbs.
What about raw honey?
Virtually pure sugar. There's no outrunning the carbs, and to make it worse, most other sweet things have their own issues.
Edit: of course, honey is still fine in moderation. It's just not necessarily generally better than any other form of essentially sugar.
It tastes better, at any rate.
When in moderation, honey is certainly much better than white sugar! Especially if we are talking about authentic natural honey with no added preservatives! White Sugar is just poison, it's just extremely processed and not healthy.
Jaggery?
Yup, it's a "traditional non-centrifugal cane sugar consumed in the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Africa."
Thank you, never heard of it before.
Giving your kids unrestricted access to TikTok/YouTube shorts
Man, youtube shorts just keeps going, forever.
Social media. From a mental health and a privacy pov.
Def, always need to keep in mind to get some time off the computer, even if for work or educational purposes, just go and touch the grass
Doom-scrolling.
Life and the world isn't that bad. Like, in some parts it is, but people need to understand that you alone cannot exactly control everything on how they work. They're going to happen anyways. The media has, for decades, successfully ingrained people's minds and mentalities to believe everything must be bad by the minute and to always expect the worse.
But if you stop doom-scrolling for prolonged periods of time and realize this, things aren't as bad as projected.
Having sex with my ex-wife
Agreed. I never should’ve done that.
Alcohol is by far the most detrimental drug to both individuals and society and yet is the most socially accepted. Of course that last part is why it's the most detrimental.
Taning
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