The first example is about sweets. Eating sweets will bring happiness to many people. Most of us like sweets, so we are always looking for sweeter food or making it sweeter.
In ancient times, the sweetness of wild apples was similar to that of carrots. Later, after human cultivation, the sugar content of apples is dozens of times that of wild apples. Now apples can be squeezed into apple juice, which will remove the plant fiber of apples, thus increasing the sugar content of the same volume of food. This is how the sugar in food gradually increases. The sugar you eat will be broken down into blood sugar and transported to all parts of your body.
However, high blood sugar is harmful to blood, and human beings must control blood sugar within a reasonable range. Therefore, when the blood sugar content in the blood rises, the human body will secrete insulin to convert blood sugar into fat, thus reducing the blood sugar content. In order to control blood sugar within a reasonable range, young people nowadays secrete twice as much insulin as people fifty years ago to control blood sugar content. Excessive sugar intake, on the one hand, makes human body fat more and more, on the other hand, with the increase of insulin secretion, body cells gradually become insensitive to insulin. In other words, cells used to convert blood sugar into fat as soon as insulin began to secrete. Later, cells can only work when they secrete more insulin. This increases the burden on the pancreas. After a long time, the function of the pancreas decreased, and insulin could not be secreted, resulting in type 2 diabetes.
The second example is about Ge You lying down, that is, we always like to lie down and do nothing. But is this really good?
The human body is a "use in and waste out" machine, that is, the organs you often use often have better functions, and their functions will decline or even shrink when they are not used. For example, in order to prevent Alzheimer's disease, doctors will let patients often play mahjong, which is why. For example, walking in the field after surgery can promote blood circulation and help the body recover.
So a big problem facing modern people is that the amount of exercise is too small, which is actually telling bones, "I don't need such a strong bone", because maintaining an excessively strong bone requires more energy supply, which is too heavy for the human body. You have been lying down and not using it. Our body is based on the principle of saving, and osteoporosis is produced over time. If every tissue and organ in our body is not used, the human body will gradually reduce its investment in this area, which is "use it and then discard it."
The third example is about instant gratification. In recent two years, the topics of instant gratification and delayed gratification in parenting education are quite hot. The so-called instant satisfaction means that we are always emotionally interested in what can meet our needs at the moment and take active actions, while ignoring the long-term value of this matter.
For example, when faced with the problem of taking the elevator or taking the stairs, the elevator is often chosen. The reason is that at present, taking the elevator can save energy and time. In the long run, taking stairs can increase exercise. Although you know that you need to do more exercise, it will be healthier to take the stairs, but you will unconsciously choose to take the elevator, which means you will choose short-term interests and ignore long-term interests. This unfavorable factor will gradually accumulate and gradually form a huge long-term harm. Of course, this can't be blamed, because human beings have different judgments on short-term injuries and long-term injuries. Humans tend to weaken long-term harm, but strengthen short-term harm.
After listening to three examples, are you a little confused? The life you are pursuing is too comfortable and is ruining your health.
The reason may be that you haven't decided whether the life you want is a comfortable life, a satisfied life or a happy life. Or you think that comfort and satisfaction are happiness in itself. Let's be clear:
Comfort is not equal to happiness.
When we feel comfortable physically or emotionally, it will bring us happiness, but it is not happiness itself, so when we pursue a happy life, we need to think about whether we want a happy life or a comfortable life. If you want happiness, don't mistake short-term comfort for happiness, because comfort is short-term and happiness is long-term. In reality, when we enjoy short-term comfort, we should not forget that there may be long-term harm.
2. Satisfaction is not equal to happiness
Many people look for the possibility of satisfying themselves when they grow up because of the suppressed needs in childhood, and it is easy to develop into excessive satisfaction or even abnormal satisfaction. For example, people who lack meat for a long time as children will eat too much meat when they grow up, and they will feel satisfied every time they eat meat. For example, they were disciplined too strictly by their parents when they were young, and they especially advocated freedom when they grew up. But satisfaction is not equal to happiness, the same satisfaction is a short-term feeling, and happiness is a long-term state; Improper satisfaction with happiness will ruin happiness itself.
First of all, avoid excessive comfort. Comfort does not mean happiness, and a comfortable life does not mean that our bodies can adapt. For example, the use of elevators and cars reduces the amount of exercise, the promotion of air conditioning reduces the body's temperature regulation ability, and comfortable seats can make people sit for a long time but bring various problems such as lumbar strain.
However, we are not advocating that human beings live completely in the way of primitive people. After all, modern civilization has also brought many benefits, but we hope that people can establish this awareness in their minds and avoid the maladjustment of the human body to the environment caused by excessive comfort. In fact, any excess is harmful to health. Eating coarse grains is advocated now, but eating too much coarse grains will make you uncomfortable; Excessive exercise can also cause physical burden. We want to make everyone understand that the comfort of modern people is excessive as a whole, and we should sound an alarm in our minds.
Too comfortable life is not only harmful to health, but also easy to destroy our courage to pursue a happy life. We are always used to protecting ourselves and our children so well that our bodies and children are more like flowers in a greenhouse and are easily broken. Accepting the stimulation of bad environment properly is helpful to mobilize our body protection mechanism.
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