1. Using a standing desk
A long-term study looking at data on nearly 4,000 American adults found no benefit in terms of overall risk of dying from standing as opposed to sitting. In the short term, however, standing does burn more calories per minute. If losing weight is all you’re worried about, stand on!
2. Using toilet seat liners
Viruses are fragile, meaning they don’t survive very well outside of a warm human body. By the time you sit down on a public toilet seat, even if it was recently shared by someone else, most harmful pathogens wouldn’t be likely to infect you. Besides, your skin is an effective block against some microbes. I you have a cut or an open wound, the bacteria may get in your body.
3. Applying hand sanitizer
If you wash your hands regularly throughout the day, hand sanitizer is almost entirely unnecessary. Plus, it can’t kill all the germs that plain old soap and water can.
4. Juicing
When you juice fresh fruit or vegetables, you remove all of their fiber, the key ingredient that keeps you feeling full and satisfied until your next meal. What you keep is the sugar. In the short term, a high-sugar, low-protein diet means constant hunger pangs, mood swings and low energy. In the long term, you can lose muscle mass since muscles rely on protein.
5. Avoiding gourmet powder
Gourmet powder is an ingredient added to many foods to enhance their flavor. It is completely safe to ingest. Gourmet powder is often associated with a series of symptoms, from numbness at the base of the neck to a general sense of fatigue, which are commonly called “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome”. Eating too much is the more likely culprit here, not eating gourmet powder.