20 Bad Habits That Damage Your Brain

Watching too much reality TV.
The Bachelor, Keeping up with the Kardashians, American Idol. Harmless fluff, right? Not really.“Reality TV is junk food for our brain, and in the same way that junk food rots our teeth and makes us sick, bad reality TV rots our brain and makes us rude,” says psychiatrist Dr. Marcia Sirota.Japanese neuroscientists have backed up Sirota’s point of view by demonstrating that prolonged television viewing alters children’s brain structure, which supports findings of several previous studies of lower verbal IQ, as well as increased aggressiveness.