Life style disease or long term chronic diseases refers to diseases come from the way, you adopt to live your life.
Have a look ……..
- Consumption of high calorie food without appropriate physical activity
- Sedentary life without any physical activity
- Competitive living with stress
- Tobacco , alcohol or drug abuse
Despite increasing health awareness, better medical facilities, improvement in sanitation, life style disorder are increasing even in younger age group of both urban and rural areas. Now the Life style disorders are leading cause of death, however we still think that they are not serious threat because at primary stages they are not creating any discomfort and there is no emergency to take care of them.
We will take a look at most common life style disease that you should have to take seriously
- Hypertension
- Diabetes type 2
- Arteriosclerosis
- High cholesterol
- Obesity
- Chronic liver disease or cirrhosis
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Stroke
- Chronic renal failure
- Cancer
Though it is difficult to tell how these diseases develop in our body. Bad life style is the sole cause or it only triggers the development of life style disease while the basic seat for disease is created by constitution of your body, which tells your body tendency to adopt disease. The person whose body have tendency of diabetes, the excess use of sweets or sugar may trigger early development of diabetes or a person who has tendency to develop asthma or copd. On working at smoky or dusty area or consumption of tobacco may trigger the early development of asthma or copd.
Like other diseases life style disorders are also developed due to interaction of genetic code or hereditary effect and your lifestyle. You can prevent the development of new disease or slow the pace of existing disease by changing your lifestyle. You should know your body tendencies or constitution to prevent yourself from new diseases or treating existing diseases.
