As the saying goes, "overwork becomes a disease", no one can escape this law. The 4 stories about illness and death tell us a truth - don't overdraft yourself!
1. Composer Shi Guangnan: I have hardly examined my body in 50 years
Shi Guangnan, who died young in 1990 at the age of 50. He had barely checked his body before and had no idea how his health was.
Since the end of 1989, Shi Guangnan has felt some numbness in his right hand, and always thinks that it will be fine if he plays the piano for too long.
On the afternoon of April 18, 1990, Shi Guangnan sang the high note C in "Qu Yuan" for his daughter Lei Lei's accompaniment, but he had failed many times before, but unexpectedly, his daughter was suddenly inspired that day, and a beautiful and full high-pitched C filled the room. Shi Guangnan's wish to hope for his beloved daughter for many years finally dawned, he was so excited that he raised his right hand high, as if to smash the piano keys with the force of Ten Thousand Jun, suddenly his right hand fell on the piano like a dead branch, Shi Guangnan said: "My right hand is numb..." When his daughter moved to the recliner with her father who fell to the side, he finished the last sentence of his life: "Leilei, my right leg is also numb..."
From the moment the daughter moved her father to the recliner, composer Shi Guangnan died of "brainstem hemorrhage". ①②
2. Theoretical physicist Guo Hanying: Irregular heart rhythm still does not rest
Guo Hanying, son of Guo Moruo, is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Know how good his body was when he was young? The main player of the football team of Beijing 101 Middle School, running a little more than 2 points in the 800 meters, is quite good.
After Guo Hanying arrived at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he got up at 5 a.m. every day, wrote and calculated, and worked until 10 p.m., without rest on weekends.
More than a decade ago, Guo Hanying told Yang Guangping, who was "small", that he had a strange disease and that his heart rhythm was frightening. Once he tested Yang Guangping in person: about 10 minutes or so, his pulse rose from 40 times per minute to more than 90 times at once, and people were also very uncomfortable. Yang Guangping persuaded him to take a thorough rest, and he took out a pile of heavenly manuscript paper and said helplessly: "Do you see how many light calculation parts of this topic there are?" ”
In June 2010, Guo Hanying was just over 71 years old and died of "lobar pneumonia", which was not an incurable disease. ①②
3. Entrepreneur Kai-Fu Lee: I used to compete with people around me to see who slept less
Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Innovation Factory, has many labels such as IT elite and desperate sanlang.
In September 2013 he developed a lymphoma. Wang Zhaohui, the co-founder and press spokesman of the Innovation Factory at the time, wrote the following paragraph after announcing that Lee Kai-fu had lymphoma:
An elderly person addicted to the Internet, an otaku who lives in the Internet world. From waking up to resting, keep your computer, phone and pad at hand. In addition to eating, drinking, sleeping and working, all the rest of the time is spent living on the web, in email and in social networks. Staying at home, no exercise. Emotions have no ups and downs, no outlets. On the surface, the lack of shock may be more to calm the pressure in the heart.
When Kai-Fu Lee was in college, he could not sleep for up to two consecutive nights; entering the workplace was also continuing to work hard, sleeping at two or three o'clock every night was the norm, sleeping an average of 5 hours a day. He even competed with friends who needed less sleep, and he believed that sleeping one hour less a day would give him 1/24 more life.
Fortunately, Kai-Fu Lee recovered from treatment. And this illness made him very touched, "I used to feel good health, often worked overtime until late at night, would get up in the middle of the night to reply to the mail, and still get up at eight or nine o'clock in the morning for a meeting." Lee Kai-fu said that now he will never do this, and will definitely force himself to guarantee seven and a half hours of sleep every day and 3 to 4 hours of exercise time per week. ③
4. Fudan female professor Yu Juan: Reflecting on the unhealthy life before
Yu Juan, a postdoctoral fellow returnee from Fudan University, is also the mother of a child. In April 2011, at the age of 33, she died on the road to fighting cancer. It had been less than two years since she was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer in December 2009.
During the treatment, she wrote a "cancer diary":
Looking back ten years, I haven't slept before 12 o'clock. Study, test GRE, TOEFL, graduate school is the reason for the grand, at the same time, chat, online chat, BBS irrigation, bungee, supper, K song, stay up all night when the strong, usually go to bed early is basically around 1 a.m.
I'm gluttonous. When I studied in Europe, my tutor invited me to dinner at every turn, because the old lady had no appetite, and it was very enjoyable to watch me eat well, and with me telling jokes with meals, she had an appetite. When I was studying in Fudan, my supervisor had six graduate students working on a project together, and I was the only female student. But at each dinner, none of the 5 boys ate as much as I did. ⑤
She hopes to use her own experience to warn young people.
Four stories tell us a simple truth - don't overdraft your life!
The destruction of health is a difficult process to reverse, like a flat and flawless white paper, once wet with water, no matter how much ironing, there will be wrinkles. Long-term stress and overwork, not to mention whether it can be successful, if the time of success has been five years and seven injuries, what is the meaning of life?
These habits in life,
Are quietly overdrawing your health!
1. Do not eat on time, eat irregularly
In 2019, Meituan Takeaway's "On-time Eating Data Report" showed that more than 102 million people across the country could not eat dinner on time, and nearly one million people ate irregular meals. This is just a statistic for users and dinners, and the actual overall data should be much more than that. ⑥
Jia Kai, deputy chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, said in an interview with Health Times in 2016 that an irregular long-term diet will increase the probability of digestive diseases. Eat late for dinner, rest immediately after eating, resulting in food digestion in the body is not enough, this type of people are easy to get gastritis, ulcer disease and other diseases. ⑦
A study by the University of Helsinki in Finland, published in the Journal of Public Science Library General, found that an irregular diet increases the risk of certain autoimmune system diseases. People with eating disorders are more likely to suffer from autoimmune system disorders than healthy people. ⑧
2. Do not go to bed early
In March 2021, the Chinese Sleep Research Association and other institutions released the "2021 Exercise and Sleep White Paper", showing that more than 300 million people in China currently have sleep disorders.
In a survey of 2,002 young people aged 18-35 with sleep-related problems, nearly 60% (59.5%) of respondents were accustomed to going to bed late, falling asleep after 23:00. At the same time, the data interviewed showed that the poor quality of sleep also brought about the impact of "easy to feel tired and sleepy", "difficult to concentrate", "dizziness, endocrine disorders and other physical problems", "emotional instability, irritability, anxiety" and "memory loss". ⑨
Professor Xu Weihai, chief physician of the Department of Neurology of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, said in an interview with Health Times in 2021 that the body structure and biological rhythm of modern people are similar to those of ancient people, and have not evolved to adapt to the modern environment (staying up late), so staying up late to sleep needs moderation, which is not conducive to physical health. ⑨
3. Stay sedentary
Research from the American Cancer Society suggests that even if you exercise regularly every day, you can sit still for more than 6 hours a day, which is 19% earlier than those who are less than 3 hours old, and there are 14 ways to die. ⑩
That is, 14 diseases, including: cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, kidney disease, suicide, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung disease, liver disease, peptic ulcer and other digestive diseases, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, neurological disorders and musculoskeletal disease.
"Spending two minutes standing or walking around for 1 hour while sitting can improve cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure. In short, it is best not to sit for too long. The researchers noted.
4. Exercise less often a week
Exercise is very important for the body, and if you don't exercise for a few days or weeks, the body is already different.
A study published in Frontiers of Aging Neuroscience found that if the average healthy elderly only stopped exercising for about 10 days, the blood flow in important areas of the brain responsible for thinking, learning, and remembering, such as the hippocampus, would decrease significantly. ⑪
In addition, a study presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD2019) found that for young non-obese adults, even short periods of inactivity and sedentary periods can affect physical health.
Participants in the study were usually able to walk more than 10,000 steps a day, but the experiment required an average reduction of about 10,000 steps per day and an increase of 103 minutes of sitting time.
After 14 days, their cardiovascular function decreased by 1.8%, and their cardiopulmonary function decreased and their waist circumference increased. But after 14 days of normal activity, vascular function returned to its original baseline level.
5. Do not arrange a medical examination for yourself
Not only should you have a physical examination every year, understand your own condition, and when you are unwell, you must also find physical signals in time, rather than putting up with it.
Zeng Qiang, director of the Health Management Research Institute of the Second Medical Center of the Plaster General Hospital, said in an interview with Health Times in 2017 that the disease exists objectively, early detection and early treatment is the biggest thing with the least money, and our country's "Tenth Five-Year" study shows that a dollar of health investment can save 8.4 yuan of medical expenses, 200 yuan of emergency care costs, and 300 yuan of hospitalization costs. Which saves money is self-evident!
So whoever you are, even if you're only in your 20s, pay attention to health management, keep your mouth shut, and open your legs. While busy working, you must also take care of yourself, learn to enjoy life, do not exchange health for money when you are young, and then take money for health when you are old!
Source: Health Times