Simple daily habits that have harmful effects on our lives | health | Essential information for better health | DW

The list of health mistakes that some people make is topped by the habit of brushing teeth immediately after eating breakfast. This habit may damage the gums, according to the “Top santé” website.

Therefore, the site suggests rinsing the mouth with water only. Waiting thirty minutes before brushing the teeth, and it is also recommended to eat gum without sugar.

According to the same site, a study conducted by the University of California confirmed that spending some time in a car with open windows leads to the inhalation of 45 percent of the pollutants that we may inhale in one day. Therefore, it is advisable to close the windows while driving the car.

Posting clothes indoors is considered unhealthy. So the site advises to avoid it. Spreading wet clothes indoors may lead to germs sticking to them. Which can lead to diseases such as allergies and tightness, so it is preferable to spread the clothes in the open air.

In addition to these habits, it is advised not to put food in plastic containers and heat it in the “microwave”, because plastic materials include evaporating components, and many other chemical components, which may mix with food after placing it at a high temperature, and may cause cancer. Therefore, it is preferable to put food in a glass or porcelain container.

Reading emails before bed remains a bad habit that disrupts healthy sleep. Therefore, the Top Santé website recommends turning off all screens, such as smartphones, computers, and television, at nine o’clock at night, as well as twenty minutes of reading a book before going to bed.

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• Fatty liver .. its risks and ways to prevent it!

  A chemical lab baffles scientists

  In everyone’s tummy is a highly specialized chemical laboratory, repeatedly astonishing scientists by removing toxins, producing hormones, and aiding in the digestion of fats to supply the body with nutrients and control blood sugar levels. It’s the liver that even teaches our immune system to distinguish between friend and foe. With about 500 metabolic processes, the liver protects the body’s organs and ensures their continued well-being.

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  Fatty liver .. its risks and ways to prevent it!

  bad eating habits

  But this organ, with all that it gives to sustain life, is slowly suffering, because of bad eating habits, the number of people suffering from what doctors call “fatty liver” or “fatty liver” is increasing. Statistics say that every third adult in developed industrial countries suffers from “non-alcoholic fatty liver” resulting from improper nutrition, weight gain and lack of movement.

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  Fatty liver .. its risks and ways to prevent it!

  What are the symptoms?

  Fatty liver disease is generally a silent disease, and it has no symptoms, especially in its early stages. As the disease progresses, symptoms such as fatigue, loss of appetite, weakness, nausea, impaired decision-making, and concentration problems can appear. In other cases: abdominal pain, especially in the upper right side of it, and the appearance of dark spots in some parts of the body, especially on the neck and the area under the armpits.

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  Fatty liver .. its risks and ways to prevent it!

  Close relationship with diabetes

  Doctors speak of a “fatty liver” only when an organ stores more than five percent of its weight in fat. This disease is closely linked to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. In the worst cases, it can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer.

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  Fatty liver .. its risks and ways to prevent it!

  master of renewal

  There are no drugs that reduce the accumulation of fat on the liver, but the liver itself is the master of regeneration, according to scientific studies, as it can recover completely when people with this disease change their lifestyle in time.

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  Fatty liver .. its risks and ways to prevent it!

  This is how the liver fat dissolves

  The most effective treatment for fatty liver disease in its simplest stages is: Weight loss. And a little of it produces big results. A weight loss of just 5 percent can be enough to reduce fat from 20 to 30 percent, according to a study by the Tubingen Teaching Hospital. Doctors recommend “qualified weight loss” based on a long-term dietary change in which fructose, carbohydrates and saturated fatty acids are eliminated.

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  Fatty liver .. its risks and ways to prevent it!

  Diabetics

  Patients with diabetes should be supplemented with blood sugar medications, which also help in weight loss. “When diabetes and fatty liver are combined, we prefer to prescribe weight-loss drugs such as GLP-1 analogs and SGLT-2 inhibitors,” says hepatologist Andreas Fritsche.

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  Fatty liver .. its risks and ways to prevent it!

  Nuts instead of cake.. and vegetables instead of sweet chocolate

  Once the liver is in good health, this important organ can perform its metabolic tasks again without restrictions, which is reflected in all organs of the human body. The liver’s sensitivity to insulin improves, the blood sugar level decreases, and the percentage of fats in the blood decreases. To achieve this, nuts must be made a substitute for pastries and avoid everything that contains high levels of sugar, in exchange for eating vegetables, fruits, whole grains and low-fat foods.