Things You Keep Doing Wrong Every Day Without Even Realizing It

Tag a friend that is guilty of any of these

1. Flushing with the lid off

Such a simple thing as flushing with the lid down could have a dramatic impact on your health. Every time you flush it’s basically as if your toilet was sneezing (experts call it toilet plume).

Since bacteria can be hurled up to 10 inches above the toilet when flushing with the lid off, even your toothbrush is at risk of catching splashes of fecal matter.

2. Drinking ice cold water

Drinking water might be the most natural thing in the world, and of course, a cold glass of the stuff is so refreshing during the summer,

so how bad could it be? But according to a study, drinking cold water worsened symptoms of digestive problems such as achalasia. Although cold water won’t make you sick, it could constrict your blood vessels.

3. Storing tomatoes in the fridge

It’s the age-old question: should you keep tomatoes in the fridge or on the countertop? This depends on how ripe your tomatoes are. But ideally, you should do both. Its ideal storage temperature is around 55ºF.

Although the fridge will prevent ripe tomatoes from developing mold because most fridges are set at 35ºF, ripe tomatoes will lose flavor. Fortunately, letting your ripe tomatoes rest for a couple of days on the countertop after refrigerating them will give them their flavor back.

4. Reheating plastic containers

Depending on the type of plastic you’re using, heating it in the microwave could release various chemicals into the foods or liquids that you’re warming up.

Although some plastics are deemed safe to heat, it might be better to err on the side of caution if you’re unsure of the exact composition of your containers. Even approved plastics do not guarantee chemical-free food after warming them up.

5. Not washing tin cans before opening them

Despite the common belief, washing raw chicken can be counter-productive as it might contaminate other foods, utensils, and countertops. Cans, on the other hand, are hardly washed and wrongly so.

It is recommended to wash them so harmful particles don’t fall into the food, especially if it’s a soda can, for example, since you put it directly into your mouth.

6. Eating too fast

Eating slowly in order to be fully aware of your food is a Japanese...

custom that might be a part of what helps them stay slim. It turns out that eating slowly can help you eat less and gobbling food makes us overeat because it takes our brain 20 minutes to register what our stomach contains. Chopsticks also play a crucial role in this matter.

7 . Watching TV while eating

Just in case the previous point didn’t get stressed enough, being aware of your food is important. To put it in different terms, distracted eating might lead to obesity, according to Harvard, because it makes you eat more in one meal.

8. Drinking coffee right after waking up

The time at which you drink coffee can actually have an impact on your caffeine tolerance, a study suggests.

Cortisol, the so-called “stress hormone” is responsible for keeping you alert. There are about 3 daily peaks of cortisol production, one of them being right after waking up. If you drink coffee during those peaks, your body might get used to creating less cortisol.

9. Eating a hamburger in a line instead of in circles

Science has found the best way to eat a hamburger and it’s not the way we normally do it. The right way to chow down is to visually divide the burger into 8 parts and turn it around instead of eating it “linearly.”

10. Holding your burger too tightly

Another problem regarding eating burgers is to hold it too tightly because doing so could cause the bun to get crushed,

spilling all its contents out. Ideally, as shown above, the thumbs and pinkies should be at the bottom of the burger, and the middle 3 fingers on each hand should be on top — but you have to hold it with both hands, making it more difficult to eat your fries.

11. Eating Pringles using an A4

You’ve probably been eating Pringles wrong, but that’s ok.

Apparently, Pringles packaging is not only designed to keep the chips from falling apart during transport. In fact, by folding an A4 in half and just inserting it into the canister, you can take it in and out without the chips crumbling.

12. Peeling bananas backward

If you’ve ever seen how monkeys peel bananas, you...

might have noticed that they do it slightly differently than us. But you don’t need to be as messy about it. It’s just that peeling it backward is easier because you peel it more cleanly. So next time you’re eating a banana, turn it upside down and pinch the tip to peel it back.

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