Types, Symptoms, and Prevention of Lifestyle Diseases

1. LIFESTYLE
DISEASES

3. INTRODUCTION
Lifestyle disease associated with the way a person
or group of people lives. Urbanization and progress have
brought about tremendous improvements in health care
and the general standards of living, the pressures of
sustaining these standards does take a toll on us. As we
struggle to cope with the pressures of work and survival
today, we often compromise on diet, exercise, rest and
relaxation. Lifestyle diseases are diseases that are a result
of the way we lead our lives on a daily basis. More work
and no play, makes a lot of us prone to a host of diseases,
physical ailments, and emotional
problems.

4. What are Lifestyle Diseases?
Lifestyle diseases are symptomatic of everything
that is wrong with today’s lifestyle. Although the term was
once used interchangeably with ‘longevity diseases’, this
no longer holds true, as lifestyle diseases are no longer
age specific. Diseases that are linked with lifestyle choices
such as those caused primarily by the consumption of junk
food and processed food, lack of physical activity, work
stress and other factors have now begun to affect young
adults and children as well.

5. According to the World Health Organization, the
entire world is moving towards public health disaster as
approximately 16 million people annually fall victim to
lifestyle diseases prematurely. Just in 2012, non-
communicable diseases were responsible for the deaths of
38 million people worldwide, with 16 million of its victims
being under the age of 70.

6. List of Lifestyle Diseases
• Chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease
(COPD)
• Allergies
• Hearing problems
• Depression
• Anxiety disorders
• Alzheimer's disease
• Chronic backache
• Obesity
• Diabetes
• Arteriosclerosis
• Heart disease
• Stroke
• Hypertension
• Nephritis
• Cancer

7. Factors responsible for
Lifestyle diseases :
Unhealthy Eating Habits :
• Poor eating habits and food
choices greatly increase the
risk of lifestyle diseases like
cancer, heart disease,
diabetes and various other
health conditions.
• Poor eating habits can
include the over-consumption
of certain foods, dietary
deficiencies and excessive
intake of saturated fats and
refined or processed foods.

8. Lack of Physical Activity :
• This is a huge contributing
factor to the rise of lifestyle
diseases and chronic conditions
like hypertension, high
cholesterol and it can
subsequently lead to problems
with obesity, heart disease,
diabetes, strokes.
• Rural populations commute by
walking and engaging in physical
activities like chopping wood or
tilling fields, urban populations
spend most time indoor either in
offices or at home
• Public transport and
automobiles are used for
commuting.

9. Obesity :
• Obesity has become one of the greatest problems for
modern society as it greatly increases the risk of numerous
health conditions from diabetes and hypertension to sleep
apnea, osteoarthritis, lower back pain and gallbladder
disease.
• Abdominal fat poses the highest risk and is also referred
to as central obesity. Central obesity greatly increases the
risk of lifestyle diseases early in life with conditions like
raised insulin, high blood pressure high triglyceride levels
and high cholesterol levels even affecting young adults.

10. Stress and Anxiety :
• Stress doesn’t just affect us emotionally or mentally, it
also has a clear physical effect as it aggravates and
increases the risk of conditions like obesity, cardiac
disease, diabetes, asthma, Alzheimer’s disease, rapid
aging and gastrointestinal problems.
• Stress and anxiety can also affect one’s ability to relax
and get proper sleep, contributing to a further deterioration
in health and a host of other problems.

11. Poor Sleep :
• Several studies have clearly indicated the importance of sleep
in terms of both quantity and quality for general health as it
affects various metabolic, endocrine and neurological functions of the
body.
• Sleep deprivation, whether through a lack of sufficient sleep
or interrupted and poor quality sleep significantly increases the
risk of hypertension, heart disease, elevated cholesterol and
triglyceride levels, obesity, sleep apnea and a number of other health
conditions.
• Poor sleeping habits can also affect growth and development in
infants and children.

12. Smoking :
• Smoking is one of the biggest
public health problems because
of the high risk it poses.
• Smoking is associated with
various lifestyle diseases such as
numerous respiratory disorders
like bronchitis and asthma, lung
cancer, oral cancer and other
cancers, cardiovascular
diseases, strokes and numerous
other health conditions.
• According to a report published
in 2007, nearly 5 million fatalities
a year were attributed to
smoking.

13. Alcoholism :
• Excessive alcohol consumption increases HDL (high-density
lipoproteins) levels, increases risk of heart disease, colorectal and
breast cancer, hypertension and diabetes.
• It also contributes to the development of various other lifestyle
diseases and conditions like GERD(Gastroesophageal Reflux
Disease) and liver cirrhosis.

14. Diseases
 Heart diseases :
• India ranks first in the heart diseases through the
world over as per one WHO report which has envisaged
also that by 2015, India would have the greatest death rate
due to heart attacks. It is estimated that about 7.5 chores of
people in India are suffering from heart diseases.
Symptoms:
• An increased heart beat rate, restlessness, nervousness
and fatigue.
• Pain in arm, waist, neck, and jaws.
• Difficulties taking breath, spinning head, and vomiting
• Pain and swelling in legs and foot souls.

15.  Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease :
• This illness consists of different problems that make it
difficult to breathe, including conditions such as
emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
• People with COPD experience shortness of breath,
wheezing and coughing.
• Though treatable, breathing problems can decrease
someone’s quality of life and can be devastating.
• The prevention of COPD includes smoking cessation and
avoiding secondhand smoke.

16. Causes:
• Excessive of smoking and wine consumption.
• The danger of coming in of heart disease to a person is
higher if there have been an earlier heart diseases
conditions in the family.
• Tension, wrong dietary style and obesity.
• Excess of anger, excitement, jealousy and rivalry trigger
heart diseases exerting adverse influence on brain.
Prevention:
• Eat well digesting and light meals.
• Do have control over your weight.
• Do exercises daily.
• Check up once in a year at least for blood sugar and
cholesterol.

17.  High blood pressure :
Symptoms:
• High blood pressure is such a disease which people generally
do not take seriously. There are no symptoms of high blood
pressure. But sometimes people feel its symptoms such as
headache, nervousness, head spinning, fatigue etc.
Causes:
• Its chief reason is mental tension and today’s fast paced life
style. The people whose minds are always overloaded and
preoccupied with mental tension and worries are prone to inhibit
high blood pressure.
• Besides these, smoking, consumption of intoxicating elements,
tea, coffee, cold drinks consuming fatty oily foods eating too
much of spicy foods, excess of salt use also form the ideal
ground to breed hypertension in people.
• Hardening of arteries and obesity also leads to high blood
pressure.

18. Prevention:
• Use the least quantity of salt in meals.
• Control your weight.
• Check your blood pressure regularly.
• Don’t use tobacco, cigarettes, bidi, gutakha.
• Kidney stones leads to high blood pressure .
• Stay away from tension, depression and anger.
• Include green vegetables in your meals.
• Make the least possible uses of ghee, oil in meals.

19.  DEPRESSION :
Causes:
• Excessive feeling of
sorrows and woes, feeling
lonely and forlorn,
frustration, not able to
move on as per the daily
routine/chores etc give
births to
depression/sedimentation.

20. Prevention:
• Be busy, be cheerful :
Do such works you have interests in as for instance, read
novels-books of your choice, Listen to music of your choosing,
indulge in any sports activities indoors/outdoors, take walks
outside, start writing something on some topic which you think is
important.
• Keep away from darkness :
Never be in the dark if you are depressed. Rather go to a
place where, there is sufficient lighting.
• Take a balanced diet:
It is of utmost importance to take a balanced diet to keep body
healthy and fit.
• Increase friend circle:
Try to keep away from loneliness. Meet people and live life
joyfully.
• Helps from counselors:
Take the helps from an expert counselor.

21. Diabetes :
Symptoms:
• Repeated urination and feel of thirstiness.
• Excess feels of hunger.
• Wight loss.
• Wounds taking longer to heal up.
• Scabies and scratchiness on skin, feet getting numb, or
jangling/clinking in legs.

22. Causes:
• Lack of exercises and obesity.
• Unhealthy diet, junk food, fatty food, wine, cigarettes etc.
• Lack of proper nutrition, especially lack of proteins and fibers.
• Stress over any score is a bigger cause whether it is due to
some big disease or due to any other reason.
• The blood pressure is the chief reason of diabetic.
• Generally during the course of pregnancy, temporary diabetic
can come up which should be checked up after the delivery.
• Shortage of insulin in body.

23. Prevention:
• Keep weight under control by doing daily doses of
exercises.
• Keep away from tension and stress.
• Do not smoke bidi or cigarettes.
• Take healthy diet. Consume maximum of fruits and green
vegetables.
• Restrain yourself from sweets.

24. Breast Cancer :
Painless tumors, changes in the constitution of breast, wounds
on breast, nipples going inside, and bleeding from nipples and
developing of wound on it, or any other secretions.
Causes:
• The women who do not deliver child or if the child is delivered
in older ages have comparatively the possibilities of developing
cancer
• One of the reason of breast cancer is the today’s unhealthy life
style.
• The women who discourage breast feeding have the chances
of having breast cancer more.
• Excess of happenings of periods due to the hormonal changes
also forms the cause of inhibiting breast cancer.
• Excessive uses of wine.
• Obesity and lack of exercises.

25. Prevention:
• Bring changes in the life style and your dietary styles.
• Keep off things which trigger dangers.
• Keep weight within the permitted level.
• If you have complications in periods, take the Doctor’s
advice. Go for theregular check up.
• Go for the regular breast check up after the age of 30
years.
• Up to 18 % of the dangers of breast cancer is removed by
a brisk walk for 1- 3 hours thrice a week. Up to 45-50
minute of exercise for 5 days a week keeps cancer away.

26. The good thing about lifestyle diseases is that if we do
something about them, it is possible to reverse the
condition. Listed below are some things that you can
do to prevent lifestyle diseases :
• Eat a healthy diet
• Engage in moderate exercise (30 minutes every day)
• Sit and stand in the right postures
• Avoid foods that are high in fats, salt, sugar and refined
products.
• While our lifestyles have become more convenient, there
certainly is nothing classy about lifestyle diseases. We pay
a high price for our press-of-a-button lifestyles. Eventually,
we may need to take a step back and relearn how to lead
physically active lives, and, in turn, disease-free lives.

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