LIFESTYLE DISEASES - AYURVEDA REMEDIES

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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