健康生活:會讓你變老的六大陋習

1. Lack of sleep. Too little sleep has proven to be detrimental for your health. Research links it to high blood pressure, diabetes, weight gain, and looking tired and older.
睡眠不足。研究顯示，睡眠不足危害身體健康，可能導致高血壓、糖尿病、肥胖，而且會讓你看起來疲憊、顯老。

2. A soft spot for sweets. A sugar-packed diet can take its toll on your waistline, and experts also now believe it can make your skin dull and wrinkled.
鍾情於甜食。吃甜食較多不僅讓你腰部累積贅肉，而且據專家稱還會導致皮膚暗沉，皺紋增多。

3. Stress. Over time, constant anxiety caused from work or personal problems can delay healing, harden your arteries, and shrink areas of your brain involved in learning, memory, and controlling your mood — talk about feeling older!
壓力過大。如果長時間感覺生活、工作壓力太大，會有損身體癒合功能，導致動脈硬化，並可能導致用於學習、記憶及調控心情的大腦區域萎縮，最終不免感慨——我變老了！

4. Only exercising when trying to lose weight. Research shows that vigorous exercisers have longer telomeres — cellular biomarkers that shorten as we age — compared with healthy adults who rarely work out.
單純爲了減肥而鍛鍊。研究顯示，端粒是人體衰老的標誌物，通常會隨着年齡增長而縮短。與很少鍛鍊的健康人士比較，積極鍛鍊的人端粒更長。

5. Blasting your iPod. Hearing loss develops slowly, the result of prolonged exposure to thousands of high-decibel insults to the ear, many of which come from exposure to everyday gadgets, like iPods or hair dryers.
大聲聽iPod。長期暴露在日常生活小物件如iPod或吹風機發出的高分貝音量下，日積月累，聽力會逐步下降。

6. Not eating fruits and vegetables every day. Antioxidants contained in fruits and vegetables remain active for only a few hours and need to be continually replenished, so don't think you're set for the week after eating a big salad for lunch on Monday.
很少吃果蔬。果蔬所含的抗氧化劑活性只能保持幾個小時，需要不斷補充，因此千萬別覺得週一午餐吃了一大盤沙拉，這周就不需要吃了。