There is a saying that people always keep smoking and drinking, and live to ninety-nine. In real life, whenever we urge people around us to quit smoking and drinking, we always receive such a reply. There are many elderly people who have smoked for decades and drank for decades and were in good health. You always say that smoking and drinking are not good for health, so how do you explain this?
In fact, there are not many people who insist on not smoking and drinking completely. Some people have both, and some people choose one of them. According to the results of the pursuit of smokers and non-smokers, non-smokers have a longer life than smokers.
Because there are many factors that affect the number of life, in addition to the personal injury caused by accident, there are many other factors, such as personal mental state, mood quality, life environment, sleep quality, life pressure, healthy diet, life habits, etc. These are all factors that affect health.
cannot be used as a confusion, and the principle of neglecting big data has many factors that affect lifespan. Smoking and drinking are only one of them, which may not have a decisive effect, but it tends to be unhealthy and risky on the balance.
Which one is more harmful to smoking or drinking?
Everyone says that smoking is not divided, and there is alcohol in the place where there is cigarettes. However, some people may only have addiction to smoking, while some people have a special liking for alcohol. So which one is more harmful than the two?
Smoking: One cigarette, the body organs are damaged
[Damage to the respiratory system]
Toxic gases and particles in tar enter the lungs as they smoke, damage the lungs, not only increasing the risk of lung cancer, but also increasing the risk of pneumonia , bronchitis and emphysema . Studies have shown that smokers are prone to common colds and flu.
[Damage to the cardiovascular system]
Smoking will greatly increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases such as stroke , heart disease , aortic aneurysm , sudden death , and will also increase the risk of peripheral vascular diseases (malignant blood circulation) and arteriosclerosis, reducing the content of high-density lipoprotein .
[Damage to the muscles and skeletal system]
Smoking is related to female osteoporosis . Smoking makes the body thinner, and smoking will make women menopause advance. Both of these are factors that cause osteoporosis .
[Smoking people gastric ulcer high risk]
. Smokers often suffer from cataract and macular degeneration, which is the main reason for blindness in the elderly. Studies have shown that smokers are more likely to develop wrinkles than non-smokers and have deeper wrinkles.
Drinking alcohol: Even a drop can cause harm to the human body
[cause taste disorder]
Drinking alcohol frequently, the taste buds will be damaged by repeated stimulation of alcohol, which may cause taste disorders and the risk of oral cancer will also increase significantly.
[Stimulating the gastric mucosa]
Many people often have symptoms of stomach discomfort after drinking, mainly because Alcohol will irritate the gastric mucosa. If you drink alcohol for a long time, high concentrations of alcohol will remain in the stomach, which will cause gastric mucosa to erode and bleeding.
【Destroy Female head 】
Long-term alcoholism may lead to ischemia and necrosis of the femoral head, affecting normal activities.
[Heavy the liver]
After alcohol enters the human body, it needs to undergo liver metabolism. Therefore, drinking regularly will increase the burden on the liver, causing damage and necrosis of liver cells, and in severe cases, affecting liver function , and diseases such as alcoholic hepatitis appear.
[Brain damage]
Long-term drinking will numb the brain nerves, causing the cerebral cortex to atrophy, leading to brain dysfunction, consciousness disorder, etc. When long-term alcohol abuse causes chronic alcohol poisoning , it can often lead to memory loss, poor directional force, mental abnormality and other symptoms.
[Hidden the Heart]
The heart is stimulated by alcohol for a long time, which will deform the myocardial fibers and lose elasticity. The risk of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease is significantly increased.
In this way, alcohol addiction will come more directly, faster and greater than the harm of smoking addiction.
Tobacco and alcohol do not touch the lifespan is shorter? Peking University Research: No smoking or drinking can significantly extend the life span of the Chinese people
On August 20, 2022, the top international medical journal "The Lancet" published a paper titled: The global burden of cancer attributable to riskfactors2010-19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burdenof Disease Study 2019. This large-scale global study shows that nearly half of the world's cancers can be traced back to known risk factors, mainly tobacco and alcohol.
As an internationally renowned medical journal, the authority of the Lancet magazine can be imagined. This shows that the harm of drinking and smoking to health is not an exaggeration. However, drinking and smoking have such great harm to health. Will the lifespan be extended if quit smoking in time, or not smoking or not drinking?
August 1, 2022, Peking University Li Liming, Lu Yun and China Center for Disease Control and Prevention Zhao Liyun's team published a research paper in the journal LancetPublic Health, which investigated the impact of healthy lifestyle on life expectancy at the age of 30. Among the five low-risk lifestyles, including never smoking or quitting smoking, not drinking too much, active exercise, healthy eating habits and healthy body type, males have an increase in life expectancy at 30 by 8.8 years and females have 8.1 years compared to individuals with low risk in all five lifestyles and only one or no low-risk in individuals. The results of this study suggest that public health interventions in these five healthy lifestyles may significantly extend the life expectancy of the Chinese population.
If you want to live a healthy and long life, in addition to staying away from tobacco and alcohol, these 4 things are equally important
. Persist in exercise
Adults should perform at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise or 75 minutes of high-intensity exercise every week. Pay attention to gradual exercise and persist for a long time, which can bring a lot of benefits to health.
If you want to live longer, you need to make changes from various details in your life. It is difficult to achieve ideal results by relying solely on a certain good habit.
. Smile to everything
Emotions can affect lung health. Regular laughter can relieve lung health and help lung health. Laughing can also dilate the lungs and clear the respiratory tract and make breathing smoother.
Emotional depression can also lead to damage to liver cells and increase the risk of liver disease . It is recommended that everyone maintain a good attitude and have a certain maintenance effect on the lungs and liver.
. Reasonable diet
Three meals should be measured on time, pay attention to the proportion of vegetables and fruits, ensure that there are enough vegetables and fruits every day, appropriate amounts of protein , and a small amount of meat, and drink enough water to keep the intestines unobstructed.
4. Foot soaking every day
Nowadays, many people have weak constitutions and are very susceptible to the invasion of cold air. If they can soak their feet every night, the cold air in their bodies will be slowly driven out.
Moreover, if you insist on soaking your feet for a while before going to bed, it is beneficial to relax your body and mind. You will fall asleep faster at night and your sleep quality is also relatively good.Foot soaking is indeed a good health method for us. As long as you persist every day, it is not a big problem to become longer.
