Everyone knows that habits like smoking or eating a lot of junk food can have a negative impact on our health, but there are a lot of lesser-known harmful habits that have become a part of our everyday lives.

However, here are 8 daily habits that slowly and silently harm our health

1) Keeping your wallet in your back pocket



 
Keeping the wallet in the back pocket and sitting on it for hours forces the pelvis and spine out of position, pinches your sciatic nerve and contributes to lower back pain. Besides that, it ruins the shape and structure of your clothes, and it makes all that hard work you did in choosing a good fit pointless.

Keeping an overstuffed wallet in your back pocket is not recommended. It can cause significant issues to your spine and other areas of back health

2) Bringing electronics into bed with you


LED screens, which includes cell phones, tablets, TVs and other gadgets, give off blue light, which lead to the production of the sleep-inducing hormone melatonin and disrupt our circadian rhythms. And if possible, keep phones and laptops in another room while you sleep.

Sounds and blinking lights can cause unwanted awakenings when sleeping next to electronics. The blue light emitted by many devices disrupts the natural production of melatonin, a hormone that facilitates sleep and can throw off your circadian rhythm

3) Drinking from plastic bottles



 
Plastic water bottles contain chemicals, and those chemicals can leach into the water. This plastic leachate can have detrimental health effects on consumers. At certain levels of exposure, some of the chemicals in plastic, especially the chemical known as bisphenol A (BPA), have even been implicated as carcinogens.

BPA and other plastic toxins can then make their way into your bloodstream, which can cause a host of problems including various cancers as well as liver and kidney damage.

4) Consuming your food too quickly



Eating fast not only increases your risk of becoming overweight and obese, it's also linked to other health problems, including: Insulin resistance. Eating too quickly is linked to a higher risk of insulin resistance, which is characterized by high blood sugar and insulin levels.

5) Cleaning your ears with cotton swabs



Using cotton swabs, however, can push the wax deeper into your ear canal. You might also seriously damage sensitive ear canal skin or your eardrum. It can also cause a variety of ear problems, including things like earwax impaction, injury, and infection.

6) Drinking too much juice

The more concentrated sugar and calories in fruit juice can lead to obesity and inappropriate weight gain. Excessive weight gain is associated with high blood pressure, hypertension, stroke, diabetes and other negative health issues later in life.

7) Sleeping too much



Too much sleep on a regular basis can increase the risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and death according to several studies done over the years. The most common cause is not getting enough sleep the night before, or cumulatively during the week.

8) Sitting down all day



Sitting or lying down for too long increases your risk of chronic health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. Too much sitting can also be bad for your mental health. Being active is not as hard as you think. There are lots of simple ways to include some physical activity in your day.