Habit
* All habits gather by unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
* Feeding occurs primarily at nioght, when animals enter shallow waters to graze.
* Many habits are well-formed by the time people reach their early teens.
* Most habits promote health.
* Some habits account for death.
* Some habits are addictive in nature
  - ancestral in nature
  - begin at a young age
  - cause deformities
* Some habits contribute to epidemic obesity
  - create digestion
  - have teeth
  - help health
  - improve health
* Some habits increase blood pressure
  - the body's production of purines
* Some habits result in bloody diarrhea
* actually change the neurochemistry of the brain.
* affect patients.
* also influence responses, but habits are responses to a single, specific situation.
* applies to individuals, instinct to ancestors.
* are a parenting tool that parents can use to teach children positive behaviors
  - actions without thoughts
  - acts or practices that are repeated so frequently they are almost automatic
  - attire
  - basic for personality structure
* are behaviors one aims at, aspires to, practices
  - that are performed automatically without premeditation
  - chains that are too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken
  - customs
  - different than instincts because they are learned
  - growth
  - learned behavior that can be passed down for decades
  - powerful factors in our lives because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns
  - psychologically ingrained patterns which function on a stimulus-response basis
  - routine patterns of behavior that tend to occur without conscious awareness
  - the key to lasting change in life
  - ways of behaving that become ingrained by repetition
* can have effects
  - impact
  - massive impact
* cause problems.
* change life
  - over decades
* change over last decades
  - several decades
* contribute to injuries.
* formed in childhood can have a lifelong health impact.
* forming in humans is reflexive.
* govern reaction.
* governs a large number of their reactions.
* have affects
* impact health.
* increases the conducting power of nerve fibres with fre- quency of excitement.
* influence growth.
* involve repetition.
* is tradition
* relate to procedures.
* show seasonal variation
* start as consciously made decisions, e.g., what time to get up.
* used to cope with post-traumatic stress, like alcohol use, can also cause health problems.

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Bad habit
* are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry
  - physically hard on a horse s condition and health, and they are always hard to break
  - the unlocked door to failure
* can create everything from bad relationships to health problems
  - range from procrastinating to using drugs
* increase the probability of a disaster striking.

Dietary habit
* Most dietary habits promote health.
* Most dietary habits show seasonal variation
* Some dietary habits enhance ability
  - result in reductions
* are one of the last things that people want to change.

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Food habit
* Food Habits Painted turtles feed mainly on plants, small animals, and some carrion.
* Most food habits change over decades.
* Most food habits change over last decades
* Tell, in simple terms, what the animal eats.
* appear to differ among estuarine areas.
* are a way of strengthening community ties
  - among the most important things a child learns
  - perhaps the most direct in their effects on the system
  - several decades
* contribute to the prevalence of dental caries.
* influence growth.
* vary depending on season
  - greatly among the raptors
  - significantly according to species, location, and season

Good habit
* Most good habits promote health.
* are important in learning to swim correctly
  - the keystone to losing weight
* can improve sleep.
* relating to fitness begin as early as age two.