6 bad habits that "ruin" the stomachs of office workers.
Office workers are busy with their jobs and don't pay attention to "taking care" of their stomachs. Repeating these bad habits day after day causes them to harm themselves.
1. Compensate for lost appetite.
Due to busy schedules, office workers often eat breakfast hastily or even skip it altogether, then compensate by overeating at lunch or dinner. This irregular eating pattern, especially overeating before bed, if prolonged, will damage a healthy digestive system.
Eating too much at dinner or eating right before bed not only affects sleep and leads to obesity, but also overloads the digestive system. Excessive gastric secretions erode the lining, eventually leading to erosion, ulcers, and other diseases.
2. Unhygienic eating habits
Surprisingly, office workers are among the least hygienic eaters. The main reason is that they frequently have to choose packed lunches.
Hot and humid summer weather creates favorable conditions for many disease-causing bacteria to grow rapidly, and food easily loses its nutritional value and spoils. Eating unhygienic food or food that has been left out for too long can easily cause acute gastritis, stomach pain, bloating, and vomiting.
Helicobacter pylori (HP) bacteria are a significant causative factor leading to the onset and development of chronic stomach diseases. This bacterium primarily originates from unhygienic eating habits and infections in various parts of the digestive tract. HP parasitizes the gastric and duodenal mucosa, causing mucosal inflammation and other stomach problems. The risk of developing stomach ulcers or gastritis is particularly high if there is a family history of the disease.
3. Eat cold.
The stomach is a very sensitive organ to climate and temperature. When irritated by cold air, the stomach is prone to spasms, causing abdominal pain, indigestion, vomiting, diarrhea, and other symptoms.
Most people tend to focus on eating hot, warm foods in autumn and winter, unaware that in summer, consuming many cold foods, chilled fruits, or foods kept in air-conditioned environments for extended periods can expose the stomach to cold, affecting digestive function.
4. Tiredness from work
Prolonged physical and mental overload leads to fatigue, weakening the immune system and the protective role of the gastric mucosa. This easily results in insufficient blood supply to the stomach, causing secretory dysfunction, reduced gastric mucus production, and damage to the gastric mucosa.
5. Nervous tension
Office workers, who frequently engage in mental activity, are prone to stress and depression. Meanwhile, the appearance and development of many stomach problems are closely linked to emotions and mental states. When a person is irritable, stressed, or angry, these negative emotions affect gastric secretion, digestion, and other functions. Therefore, prolonged depression, anxiety, or trauma also increase the risk of peptic ulcers.
6. Tobacco addiction
Work stress sometimes leads many people to turn to cigarettes to relieve tension. Cigarettes not only damage the body's respiratory system but also cause significant damage to the stomach. Heavy smoking increases the incidence of gastritis. This is because the nicotine in cigarettes damages the stomach lining.
Specifically, it promotes vasoconstriction, reducing blood supply to the gastric mucosa, inhibits prostaglandin synthesis (a substance that plays a role in repairing and protecting the gastric mucosa), can cause bile leakage into the stomach leading to severe damage to the components of the gastric mucosa, and can also promote the secretion of gastric acid and pepsin, directly eroding the gastric mucosa.
According to Giaoduc.net.vn - PC
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