Everyday health hazards for women|Health
From wearing your make-up to bed to lugging around heavy handbags, you could be compromising your health on a daily basis without even knowing it.
MSN investigates the everyday habits you should try to break to help improve your health.
Carrying a heavy handbag
Have you ever weighed the handbag you lug around all day? Apparently the average handbag can weigh up to one stone! With mobile phones, purses, sunglasses, the odd book, make-up bags, umbrellas as well as a whole host of our day-to-day essentials, we are putting our bodies under strain and stress. Hauling around a heavy handbag can lead to serious neck and back problems. When holding a bag, your neck naturally leans away from the load to help balance the weight. This can cause tension and compression in the neck resulting in neck pain. Your back can also suffer greatly with the heavy load causing back spasms, disc degeneration and prolapse, painful arthritis in the facet joints and poor posture.
Wearing the wrong bra size
On average 80% of women are wearing the wrong size bra, which can lead to a number of problems, including back pain, restricted breathing, scarring underneath the breasts, abrasions, breast pain and poor posture. If your breasts are spilling out of your current cup size, or the bra rides up your back, and the straps dig into your shoulders then you are wearing an ill-fitting bra. So make sure you get yourself measured and get the support that you need.
Emotional eating
It's easy to turn to that huge bar of chocolate when you're feeling a bit low but think of your waistline. Craving junk food when you're sad is natural but by binge eating you will only find temporary relief and will not be solving the underlying issue that is causing you to feel blue. Try not to turn to food for that comfort and seek out other ways to cope with your problems. Increase your feel-good endorphin levels by being more active.
Wearing high heels
High heels may look lovely but wearing heels higher than two inches daily could be causing you a variety of health troubles. Not only are you putting pressure on your joints but the height of your shoe heel can affect your body's alignment, putting pressure on both the back and on the balls of the feet causing headaches, bad posture and eventually could lead to arthritis.
Sleeping in make-up
We've all done it. After a night on the town we've stumbled into bed without taking of our make-up off. But the dirt and oil that accumulates overnight can clog pores and congest our skin causing spots. Sleeping with mascara and eye make-up on can also cause eye irritation, bloodshot eyes or even infection.
Lack of sleep
Research has found that nearly 40% of adults in the UK are failing to grab their 20 winks and that sleep problems affect more women than men. A bad night's sleep can affect you in a multitude of ways. Sleep deprivation can kill your sex drive, increase accidents, hamper your performance at work, increase your calorie consumption and even age your skin.
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