Tuesday 29 October 2013

Lifestyle Diseases

Over decades, due to unhealthy diets, smoking, lack of exercise, and perhaps stress. These are major risk factors for Lifestyle Diseases like, high blood pressure, tobacco addiction, high blood cholesterol, diabetes and obesity. These results in various long-term disease processes, reaching in high humanity rates attributable to stroke, depression and heart disease, tobacco- and nutrition-induced cancers, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, renal failure, and many others. Internationally, these diseases are also known as “Lifestyle Diseases” or “degenerative diseases”.



An individual's health depends on lot of on their lifestyle. Maintaining physical and mental health is causes to an individual's longevity. The more time spent on cleanliness, physical fitness, with balanced diet, the healthy lifestyle they embrace.

A lifestyle disease is related with the way a person lives.  Lifestyle diseases  include atherosclerosis, heart disease, stroke, obesity, type 2 diabetes these diseases are the results of smoking and alcohol abuse. Lifestyle diseases are becoming more common presently, because of countries become more developed. For the first time in history these lifestyle diseases kill more people than infectious ones
Those who join in any kind of physical activity regularly, they are generally healthier than those who don't. Mental illness may happen due to various reasons. For example, depression may promote mental illness through stress and anxiety. Reasons for depression can be due to a number of things including job loss, recently widowed and divorce, etc. Depression may lead to increase the poor habits for not promoting physical health. Poor habits may lead to a poor or even dangerous lifestyle.

Environment


There are two types of environment for Healthy lifestyle: nature and social. Natural surroundings in which a person lives and operates. An individual who passionate about his healthy lifestyle will prefer to walk to nature closely. For a healthy lifestyle natural environment is required, such as fresh air, clean water, clean home, clean neighborhood and a cleanness at home. Those who are nature loved decide to plant flowers, vegetables and other greenery’s in their backyard and organizes their household waste and uses positive and practical ways to conserve environmental sustainability.

Social environment is entirely different. Social Environment includes living and working conditions, income level, educational background, community and religious beliefs.
In a social environment there are certain expectations from the person for those around him. Expectations like success and wanted to be best.


Along with success stress related diseases will definitely comes. On the contrary if failure happens, and then there will be mood swings and attracts frustration. In order to avoid this, there are better ways to stay away from failure and disappointment.

Technology


Technology and diversity have significantly changed the lives of people in society. Technology has both positive and negative effects on our daily lifestyle. However, these aspects of technology depend on how much we use and exposed to it. In other words, our lifestyle controls the use of technology, while technology influences our lifestyles.
Technology has changed the field of agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, information, medicine, communication, war among others. Technology has also made easier for other factors to affect our lifestyle, such as media. All in all, technology has made our lives much easier; so that we have no longer required living forceful lifestyle as in the past, contributed to the turn down in our health.
On the other hand, technology has complex in lives and had many negative effects. Technology has the power to bring media to us and that can change our values and views on the world, which in return will change our lifestyles. Because of evolution in technology such as computers and television, people become a much more sedentary lifestyle, which leads to unhealthy issues and complications. 

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