These include
hypertension, heart, disease, obesity, diabetes, disease associated with
smoking and alcohol and drug abuse, tobacco,- and nutrition-induced cancers,
chronic bronchitis, emphysema and premature mortality.
Lifestyle disease take
toll on health of people before their time,
many people are dying relatively young
from Heart Disease and Cancer and other lifestyle diseases. The disease profile
is changing rapidly. The World health organization (WHO) has identified India
as one of the nations that is going to have most of the lifestyle disorders in
the near future. Nowadays, not only are lifestyle disorders becoming more common,they
are also affecting younger population. Hence, the population at risk is from 40+to may 30+ or even younger. A study conducted
shows the incidence of hypertension,
obesity, heart disease is increasing at an alarming rate, especially in the
young, urban population. According to doctors say, a sedentary lifestyle
combined with an increase in the consumption to
fast food and alcohol is to blame cases of obesity, diabetes, and
hypertension etc.
Life Style as a causative
factor
Heart Risk
§ India No.1 in cardiac patients: 10% population affected, US/EUROPE No. 2:7% each; China:
4%.
§ Heart Diseases to be single greatest ‘killer’
in India by 2015 (WHO).
§ 50 million people in India suffer from
heart problem. Number expected to double by 2010.
§ Highest growth among young
executives: 1 of 8 is under 40 years.
§ Heart attacks among executives at 10 years
ahead of global average age: Prevention needs
to start in early 20s.
§ Prevalence of CAD up from 17.5% to 35%
among cooperate executives in past decade: two-fold rise.
§ Heart attacks kill one in every 10
Indians.
Obesity / Diabetes
§ 31 percent of urban Indians are
either overweight or obese.
§ Obesity can, in fact, triple the risk
of heart risk of heart disease.
§ India has one of the highest no of diabetic
patients in the world, as many as 30 million.
§ Same scenario world wide.
Stress/ Hyper tension/Lipids
§ Hypertension & Stress, especially
from work, account for more than 50% of heart ailments.
§ 100 million people in India have
blood pressure
§ Two out of three employees in India
are victim of stress
§ Over 40% of urban Indians have high
lipid levels(cholesterol and triglycerides) that are the major risk factors for
heart disease
Changing lifestyle is mainly responsible for
an increase in the number of people suffering from hypertension, stress, and
other heart ailments. We have no time for entertainment, social life, exercise and
regular eating and sleeping patterns.
Time is being converted into money and personal priorities take back
seats as corporate interests and personal ambitions take centre stage. Only
when your body starts showing signs of fatigue and inability, we look at our
daily routine tine and think how the same impact our personal lives. These are
mainly caused due to reduced physical activity and consumption of fast food and
alcohol. Since factors like heredity, sex, age cannot be avoided, one must manage one’s lifestyle to avoid being
at risk of different lifestyle dominated diseases.
Lifestyle Medicine
People
suffering from different ailments or those who stays in the risk zone, should
have periodic health checkups for early detection of risk factors and disease.
Regular health- checks coupled with lifestyle changes can go a long way in
preventions, early detection and cure of diseases. Preventive health care
involves health promotion, which is aimed at modifying the individual’s social circumstance
and lifestyle, which can be also termed as Lifestyle Medicine.
Lifestyle
Medicine is nothing but the use of lifestyle interventions in the treatment and
management of lifestyle diseases. Such interventions include diet rectification
(good nutrition), exercise, stress management, smoking cessation, and variety
of other non drug modalities.
The emphasis
of lifestyle medicine is on:
§ Assessing Lifestyle
§ Evaluating the risk factors
§ Evaluating laboratory reports
§ Discussing the opportunities for
interventions
§ Prescribing an optimal lifestyle
The healthy lifestyle habits that each member of the society should be
practice are:
·
A
strict No to – Smoking
_ Alcohol
_ Illegal
Drugs
-
Hypertension
-
Stress
·
Eat
Low Fat, Low salt, High Fiber Diet, FRESH GREEN VEGETABLES, FRESH FRUIT, NUTS,
CURD, YOGURT.
·
Do
physical Activity etc
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