Habits that do more harm than good

Oh, it sounds dangerous, is that true? I know over-washing hair is not good ,but I don't know using too much hand sanitizer and brushing after every meal are bad too.

Hello :). This might sound kind of gross, but I have discovered that usually you can't have health and cleanness at the same time. Before I moved by myself I was usually always sick, either a cold, asthma or allergies, so I always was cleaning my room and stuff. After I moved by myself I let everything get dirty. Dust everywhere, there are ants living on the walls and on the weekends I don't even shower. But now I don't get sick, at all. I don't even sneeze, no more allergies, nothing. I've even been between a lot of sick people and I don't get sick. Once everyone in the office caught the flu, there was snot everywhere, people coughing over me and there were some that even fell in bed for some days. But I didn't even felt tired or ill. After a week of that, I discovered I am now unsickable (:p). So maybe people should clean less and let the germs come to them to be healthy. Ever since that I don't even clean until I can see my footprints on the floor :p. Funnily, I don't even wash my teeth that much (I use mouthwash for the breath though) and I don't even have cavities. Maybe everything they teach as proper hygiene is a lie :).

I think we can go too far with cleanliness but then there are people who decide that's bad for us and end up going the other way. Being clean and hygienic is important. I do agree with the things you have said. Well, it's been common knowledge about washing hair and brushing teeth for years. If you brush your teeth straight after eating, you're just cleaning the food deposits and not your teeth. Although flossing after eating is a good idea. Hair needs certain oils, etc. which are washed out when using shampoo or washing too often. As for hand sanitiser, the suggestion is that, if your hands LOOK dirty and have physical dirt on them, use soap and water. If you need to wash your hands when they are not physically dirty, then sanitiser is better (except when going to the bathroom. Then you should wash your hands in soap and water anyway because anyone who doesn't do that is disgusting!).

To add something, it is a big relief for people to sit longer after each heavy meal. Though it fells more relaxing sitting after each heavy meal, it may actually brings you to health problems. First, the food in the stomach will be squeeze, thus making it harder for the stomach juices to mix with the food and prolonging its digestion.

Hi friend, you shared some useful tips here, some persons thought that using hand washer frequently is a good habit, but you clearly mentioned that too much of hand wash using the sanitizer is not good for us as well as too much of hair wash is also not good for us. We must follow this tips to keep us in healthy way. Thanks for sharing

thanks for your sharing.some i didn't know before,but now i see.we should spend more time to concern our healthy.it is important for everyone.

Another thing we do is wash ourselves too often! We wash off natural oils and try to replace them with lotions and oils of other animals. Skin problems are quite common and I wonder how much of it is due to over scrubbing with soap?

hi barbie, you are right, it is true. I don't use has sanitizer at all. i used to wash my hair everyday and notice rough and dry hair. Now I wash only twice a week. thanks for sharing. have a wonderful day.

Very true. I don't use hand sanitizer at all because it kills the good germs we need to fight the bad germs. Another thing we use too much of is antibiotics. They should ONLY be used when a person has a bacterial infection and no other time. That is actually pretty rare because most illnesses are viruses. These don't respond to antibiotics. Using the antibiotics destroys the immune system, making us more susceptible to other illnesses. We also build up a tolerance to the antibiotic, rendering them useless when we actually need them. We NEED exposure to illnesses to help build up our immune system so it can handle what we come in contact with. Hiding from germs does more harm than good, as you stated. Another myth is fluoride. I won't post on that here, but you can research how harmful it is.