bad habits

Anthony275 wrote: what are your worst habits?

i crack my knuckles...all the time. every 15 minutes in school im doing it. i can even do them all at once, and without using my hands. i also crack my wrists
my mom tells me to stop but of course i don't

Calimama replied: I twirl my hair. DH says it makes me look like a valley girl.

amynicole21 replied: Ummmm, smoking, eating junk, swearing... should I continue?

luvmykids replied: Smoking (again ), cracking my knuckles, neck, back....anything that will crack really LOL. Staying up too late, I might not be so tired all the time if I went to bed earlier And procrastinating. Although I am actually improving in that area!

Calimama replied:
Oo add my name to the list for that one.

Anthony275 replied: oh yeah that too, i go to bed 12:30 and wake up at 5:30am

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied: I have an awful habit of picking at my cuticles until they bleed sometimes. Yuck, I know, but I've done it forever. I have beautiful nails, just ugly cuticles. I'm too embarassed to get manis for that reason.

CantWait replied:
STOP THAT!!!!!!!!!! It's actually very bad for your bones. Everytime you crack your knuckles, back etc....you're rubbing the bones together and wearing them down.

As for me, my bad habit it biting my nails and cuticles. I don't know why I do it, boredom mostly I think. I hate sitting and always have to be moving, so when I sit that's what I do.

A&A'smommy replied:
EXACTLY what I was going to say.. I know someone who cracked his neck so many times that when he went to the dr. for neck problems the dr. told him if he continued to do so that he would end up paralizing himself!!!!

Anthony275 replied: i never did it until 6 months ago but hopefully ill grow out of it

another habit is i grow my nails out for a month, break that off and then do it again for the next month...i itch my back a lot and you should see the cuts and scratches, looks like i got whipped

Calimama replied:
Oh scary!!

Cece00 replied:
Actually thats a myth.

>>No. In fact, it's not dangerous at all, said Dr. Jonathan Kay, clinical director of the rheumatology unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.

"The cracking sound you hear when you pull on your fingers is caused by the release of negative pressure within the joint," he said. Technically, this is called cavitation. Inside every joint in the body, a gooey substance called synovial fluid coats the surfaces of cartilage to protect them. Just as two discs coated with mineral oil stick together and can only be pulled apart with a bit of force, so it is inside the joint. When you pull, you break the vacuum seal created by the synovial fluid and the breaking of that seal causes the popping sound -- from the bursting of bubbles of gases dissolved in the fluid.

Curiously, it takes about 20 minutes for the seal to re-establish itself. So crack your knuckles all you want. You might stretch a few ligaments, but you will not give yourself arthritis. But it'll be no fun unless you wait 20 minutes between cracks.

TheOaf66 replied:
those and chewing my nails


I don't think drinking to much is a bad habit, I consider it therapy

luvbug00 replied: bitting my lips. and swaring....

katiesmom2002 replied: hmm lets see what is my bad habit? probably not eating right. Or actually this my husband will say i fall alseep at 9:00 9:30, is that really such a bad habit lol. Hmm thats all i can really come up with lol.

holley79 replied:
My chiro explained that to me as well. that's why when you crack your back you feel a pressure being released.

My bad habits would be: smoking, swearing, junk food, staying up too late, ect ect ect. Can you tell I have a lot of bad habits? I'm 28 now and I guess I'm set in my ways.

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied:
Ditto to that!

gr33n3y3z replied: Swearing I have to cut back on that
And road rage well not really road rage just I yell at other ppl.