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Alright, how about three daily habits that could hurt your health and decrease your lifespan?

So if you're a subscriber to my channel, I know you care about your health.

That's why each week I do my very best to help you make your health a top priority.

So today I'm sharing three surprising daily habits that could be hurting your health and decreasing your lifespan.

Number one, first up, eating breakfast.

Now, first of all, most traditional American breakfast foods are loaded with sugar and health wrecking ingredients.

Serial waffles, sugary granola, yogurt, instant oatmeal and animal protein.

But that's not the only reason breakfast is terrible for you.

Breakfast was designed to break your overnight fast.

And there's very strong evidence that breakfast is a very modern time of day to eat.

It looks like breakfast was started in England at the Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s.

When men went off to factories and worked all day, there were no breaks.

There was no lunch break and returned home late at night.

Women would prepare men a breakfast before they went to work because they weren't going to be back until late at night.

And they needed to start something to start the day.

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that concept.

In fact, I talk about the Ramadan diet, which is this exact same thing where you eat breakfast before sunlight and don't eat again until after sunset.

And as I've shown in my last two books, the Ramadan plan is actually very health-promoting.

On the other hand, this whole idea was hijacked by breakfast cereal companies in the early 1900s when cereals were invented.

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