Lifestyle Diseases Issues And Challenges
The colossal advancements in science & technology in the 21st century have not only made us immensely dependent on mechanized gadgets but also ensured that our physical activity gets restricted to a minimal level. Moreover, our modern lifestyle is typically deskbound, tending towards untimely working hours, inadequate rest and unhealthy food habits. This sedentary lifestyle ensures that we fall prey to lifestyle diseases. Non-communicable diseases or lifestyle diseases as they are commonly termed characterize those diseases whose occurrence is primarily based on the daily habits of people and are a result of an incongruous relationship of people with their environment. The key factors responsible for lifestyle diseases include wrong food habits coupled with increased smoking and alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, obesity, raised blood sugar, raised cholesterol level, wrong body posture and disturbed biological clock. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), non-comm...