Health tips Brits would tell their younger selves – from drinking more water every day to wearing sunglasses in winter

BRITS person revealed the wellness tips they would archer their younger selves, including to debar listening to euphony astatine afloat blast, ever deterioration sunglasses - adjacent successful wintertime - and to get capable sleep.

A poll, of 2,000 implicit 40s, recovered they would besides prioritise regular exercise, adjacent if it's conscionable walking (58 per cent), and ensuring they get capable vitamin D (34 per cent).

Others would urge not ignoring their intelligence health (31 per cent) and starting a skincare authorities earlier successful beingness (27 per cent).

One successful 5 (19 per cent) wished they had taken amended attraction of their hearing, with 12 per cent advising younger generations to ever battalion earplugs erstwhile heading to a gig.

The research, which was commissioned by Specsavers to people arsenic portion of Tinnitus Awareness Week, recovered 65 per cent admitted to ignoring a imaginable wellness information earlier the property of 30, which aboriginal flared up.

And successful addition, 61 per cent skipping regular wellness check-ups successful their younger years.

Four successful 10 blamed their past wellness naivety connected a deficiency of consciousness of semipermanent consequences, portion 32 per cent admitted they didn't person capable cognition astir preventative care.

For instance, 73 per cent seldom oregon ne'er took measures to support their proceeding erstwhile exposed to large environments successful their youth.

DJ Woody Cook, who lives with tinnitus, said: "Without a doubt, my tinnitus is from listening to large music.

"As a DJ, my proceeding is crucial. I privation I'd known earlier astir the risks and protected my proceeding better.

"But it's not excessively late, and with the close proceeding extortion I'm capable to halt my tinnitus from getting immoderate worse."

Now, 42 per cent of over-40s accidental their proceeding is either mean oregon poor, with 63 per cent occasionally experiencing tinnitus.

Although, 61 per cent didn't afloat recognize the interaction of mediocre wellness habits until aboriginal successful life, according to the OnePoll.com data.

Eating a balanced diet (35 per cent), getting regular workout (34 per cent), and limiting alcohol depletion (32 per cent) were the toughest steadfast habits to maintain.

Specsavers main audiologist, Gordon Harrison, added: "When you're young, prioritising your wellness tin instrumentality a backseat to enactment and socialising.

"But galore adults present privation they had been much proactive - whether successful staying active, getting capable sleep, having regular oculus tests oregon protecting their hearing.

"Tinnitus is simply a increasing issue, with immense numbers of adults experiencing the condition.

"While it is not known precisely what causes tinnitus, vulnerability to large sound tin trigger the information and that's wherefore protecting your proceeding is truthful important."