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Why do we adopt behaviors that we know are harmful to our health?

Cigarettes, alcohol, junk food, sedentary lifestyles… It’s hard to continue to ignore the dangers of these behaviors, and even doctors who should be the best informed aren’t necessarily models of healthy lifestyles. Proof that adopting healthy behaviors is not that simple… Why? “Le Figaro” tried to see things more clearly…

Between a distant and random reward (being healthy later) and an intense and immediate reward, our brain prefers the present ,” notes Dr. Bernard Anselm, physician and author These feelings that drive us (edited by Alpen). Professor Marc Verin, a neurologist at the University Hospital of Rennes Ponchaillu and president of the Rennes Institute of Clinical Neurology, confirms: A very powerful reward circuit overrides judgment if there is no real voluntary effort. The simple act of lighting a cigarette for a smoker (or pouring a glass of alcohol for a drinker, etc.)…

Source: Le Figaro

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