LIFESTYLE DISEASES - AYURVEDA REMEDIES

Lifestyle disorders are a big problem for our society today. Nowadays faulty lifestyle has proved biggest killers. Among the lifestyle disorder, the most endangering to human beings are: Obesity, Hypertension, Diabetes, Arthritis, Spinal problems, Carcinoma, Dementia, Depression, Anxiety etc.

One can remain healthy without medicine by planning his/her daily routine (dincharya) and seasonal routine (ritucharya) as advised in ayurveda.

Lifestyle diseases are different from other diseases because they are potentially preventable and can be lowered with changes in diet, lifestyle and environment. Too many people are dying relatively young from the Heart disease and Cancer & other lifestyle diseases in modern times.

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. According to doctors say, a sedentary lifestyle combined with an increase in the consumption of fatty food and alcohol is the reason of obesity, diabetes and hypertension etc.

         Lifestyle as a causative factor

1.       Heart Risk & Hypertension

• India is no.1 in cardiac patients – 10%.
• Hypertension account for more than 50% of heart diseases.

    2.  Obesity & Lipids  

• 31% of urban Indians are overweight.
• 40% of urban Indians have high lipid levels.

 3. Diabetes

•    30 million people are diabetic patients.

 4.  Stress

•    2 out of 3 employees in India are victims of stress.

 When our body starts showing signs of fatigue and inability, we look at our daily routine and think how the same impacts our personal lives. Since factors like heredity, sex, age cannot be avoided, one must manage one’s lifestyle to avoid being at risk of different dominated diseases.

      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

·         A 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 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.

·         Physical Activity

The only remedy lies in the fact that, man needs to control his senses, freshen up his common sense to make life more convenient in the long run .

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