Brief Summary about Unhealthy Habits: David Scott

Brief Summary about Unhealthy Habits

Unhealthy habit is a person constantly continues to do bad activities. For example, women eating junk food is considered an unhealthy habit because it will cause a person to gain weight and it is not healthy for the skin, human organs, brain, activities, and emotions. Poor healthy habit can also damage your mind and body such as smoking constantly will damage your lung and kidney, or procrastination affect your daily activities. It can also be an unhealthy behavior because your mind will constantly do what it wants out of place. For instance, sex behavior is considered an unhealthy habit because your behavior would think that it is pleasure, yet the behavior would also considered pain. After having sex, there was a side effect that sex partner will have stress, frustration, anger, depression, and many other negative behaviors. Therefore, unhealthy habit is not good for your health and your behavior. Here are two articles that explain unhealthy habits are not good for the human behavior for various reasons:

The first article is, The High Prevalence of Poor Physical Health and Unhealthy Lifestyle Behaviours in Individuals with Severe Mental Illness, by David Scott. Scott explains that serious mental illness (SMI) is the main problem to poor physical health and unhealthy behaviors. He analyzes the type of disorders that are related to serious mental illness: obesity, the metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus, symptoms of cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, etc. Chronic disease is responsible for increased risk of death. Serious mental illness became much worse to the population as he states, “Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours undoubtedly play a role in the development of poor physical heal...

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It is really difficult to change my unhealthy habits, but sometime there are no other options but to keep that unhealthy habit unless I have a reason. However, there are other unhealthy habits that I can change to keep it healthy like reading a book, avoid using the computer too much, exercise and workout, enjoying my hobbies, avoids procrastination, and many more. So unhealthy habits can be a good thing, yet it is mostly a bad thing since poor habits will lower your immune system and behavior.

Works Cited

Nicholas, P. F. (2007). Unhealthy behaviours for self-management of HIV-related peripheral neuropathy. AIDS Care, 19(10), 1266-1273.

Scott, D. (2011). The High Prevalence of Poor Physical Health and Unhealthy Lifestyle Behaviours in Individuals with Severe Mental Illness. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 32(9), 589-597.