You won't lose out if you trade a few minutes for decades.

Sometimes, health does not require big action. A small action or a small thing can become an unexpected surprise. The following small things will only take you a few minutes on average, but their benefits to health are far beyond your imagination.

Eat lunch and dinner for 30 minutes

It is not an exaggeration to describe the pace of modern people’s meals as “short, flat and fast”. However, repeatedly shortening our meal time is also shortening our lifespan. Experts recommend that you spend 15-20 minutes eating breakfast, and about 30 minutes for lunch and dinner. It is best to chew each mouthful of food 25-50 times.

If you want to get angry, be patient for 10 seconds

High-pressure life makes more and more people "unable to control themselves". When facing stress, please give yourself a 10-second buffer before overreacting and allow yourself to calm down slowly. Men who respond to stress by getting angry are three times more likely to suffer from mental illness than those who don't get angry easily.

1 minute horse stance squat

No matter how long you sit on a chair every day, please sit on the "invisible chair" for 1 minute every hour - doing horse stance. The horse stance is mainly for regulating the "essence, energy and spirit". When squatting in the horse stance, one is required to concentrate and calm down, breathe naturally, and squat deeply, flatly and steadily to exercise organs such as the throat, chest, and kidneys, and tighten the abdominal and leg muscles to achieve the purpose of whole-body exercise.

Lie down for 2 minutes after waking up before getting up

According to incomplete statistics, more than 2 million people die from stroke every year. In cases of stroke and sudden death, about 25% occur the moment one wakes up in the early morning. Therefore, when you wake up in the morning, don't rush to get up. You should lie quietly in bed for 2-3 minutes before sitting up, and then stand up after sitting for 2-3 minutes. Hong Zhaoguang, chief health education expert of the Ministry of Health, explained that "lightning-speed" change from a lying position to a sitting position, or even getting out of bed to move around, may very likely cause acute cerebral hypoxia and ischemia due to the rapid change in blood pressure, leading to a fall.

Brush your teeth for 3 minutes

A survey shows that more than 60% of people do not know the correct way to brush their teeth. If they do not brush their teeth for more than 3 minutes, it is useless. "Generally, the time for brushing teeth should be controlled at about 3 minutes, once in the morning and once in the evening." The correct way is to brush your teeth in order from top to bottom, left to right, lips, cheeks, palate and tongue. It is appropriate to move 1-2 teeth each time. It takes 4-5 minutes to carefully brush all the teeth in your mouth. If you use an electric toothbrush, brush for 2 minutes.

After cooking, turn on the range hood for another 4 minutes

Cooking on cookers with poor ventilation and extremely low combustion efficiency can cause health damage equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, a research report shows. Therefore, after cooking, leave the range hood on for another 4-5 minutes to completely absorb harmful substances.

5 minutes, do eye exercises until old age

Eye exercises are not just for students. Let’s keep up this good habit from childhood to old age. Especially the last sentence of the eye exercise, "Open your eyes, go outdoors, or look into the distance", you must do it.

Do housework for 45 minutes every day

Based on the calories burned by walking 1,000 steps, mopping the floor for 8 minutes or washing dishes for 15 minutes can achieve the same effect. The Chinese Nutrition Society recommends that daily activity should be no less than 6,000 steps.