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11 Unhealthy Habits Women Should Quit

Women always talk about how men have all the unhealthy habits and they don't. Women too have unhealthy habits and these go largely unnoticed because men do not bother to criticise them. As men are happy to leave women alone with their bad habits, women think that they lead largely healthy lifestyles. This is not strictly speaking true. There are unhealthy habits of women that need to be discussed.

These bad habits of women are usually related to the cosmetic aspects of their beauty. Women flaunt health rules most carelessly when it interferes with their beauty regime. Women do all kinds of unhealthy things if they think that it will make them look good. They are even careless about removing their makeup at times.

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However, if you confront women with these issues, they always make you look like the guilty one and that is another bad habit that women have; emotional blackmail. But we are strictly speaking about unhealthy habits of women here. So, we will try to keep the gender war out of the equation. Women's health is an important issue and they should not ignore it.

Here are some unhealthy habits that women should quit right away.

Wearing High Heels

Wearing High Heels

High heels are bad for your back, period. Be it ‘slight' heels, ‘pencil' heels or ‘platform' heels, you should try and not wear them because they interfere with our nerve endings and affect your central nervous system.

Tight Fitting Clothes

Tight Fitting Clothes

Tight fitting clothes make you uncomfortable even if they show off your assets. Tight fitting clothes obstruct blood flow and also irritate the skin.

Sleeping With Makeup

Sleeping With Makeup

Makeup is bad enough for your skin as it blocks your pores. But to forget to remove makeup at night is a crime.

Crash Dieting

Crash Dieting

The super diet you are trying to get slim in seven days for your best friend's wedding is a crash diet. Crash diets are not sustainable and deprive your body of nutrients. You are not supposed to diet without consulting an expert.

Wearing Push Up Bras

Wearing Push Up Bras

Wearing bras that enhance your assets is bad for your health. These corset type bras obstruct the blood flow to the brain and can even make you faint suddenly.

Not Wearing Glasses

Not Wearing Glasses

Most women say that they have only ‘reading' glasses and don't wear spectacles most of the time. Wearing spectacles at all times protects your eyes from further damage and it doesn't always ruin your looks.

Ignoring Heart Problems

Ignoring Heart Problems

Women always go by the saying that it is men who die of heart diseases. So they take their hearts for granted. They think that they can eat all the fried food in the world and ignore the signs of heart problems.

Being Hormonal

Being Hormonal

Some women suffer from bouts of deep depression and blame it on their hormones. Sometimes, hormones do play havoc with your mood. But you have to separate clinical depression from being slightly hormonal.

Binge Drinking

Binge Drinking

Women are usually not regular drinkers of alcohol. But they compensate by doing binge drinking. The day they go partying, they drink too much and do so consciously. This is a bad habit because it gives our body sudden sugar spikes.

Misusing Contact Lens

Misusing Contact Lens

Contact lens was made so that you could have an all-round vision and arrest your eye power quickly. But women use contact lens so that they can do eye makeup.

Keeping Long Nails

Keeping Long Nails

Growing your nail may make you look sexy but it is actually a bad habit. Long nails are difficult to keep clean and nail polish has many harmful chemicals that you are exposing yourself to.

Story first published: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 11:44 [IST]
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