Definition of Lifestyle disease Lifestyle disease: A disease associated with the way a person or group of people lives. Lifestyle diseases include atherosclerosis‚ heart disease‚ and stroke; obesity and type 2 diabetes; and diseases associated with smoking and alcohol and drug abuse. Regular physical activity helps prevent obesity‚ heart disease‚ hypertension‚ diabetes‚ colon cancer‚ and premature mortality. ‘Lifestyle diseases’ such as heart disease‚ some cancers and diabetes‚ which are no longer
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Lifestyle Diseases There are many diseases that contribute immensely to the burden placed on a person‚ a family‚ a society and a country‚ and despite advances in medicine‚ the number of people with such diseases continues to increase with people dying younger. In a newspaper article dated back two years stated that in June the previous year‚ Pacific health ministers had declared a non-communicable disease (NCD) crisis because it was revealed that the Pacific was breeding a generation of obese children
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Lifestyle Disease Lifestyle disease which may also be referred to as Non-Communicable Disease‚ has in recent times become an issue of grave concern for governments both globally and regionally. The World Health Organization (WHO) Secretary-General‚ during a General Assembly Summit (first ever summit on deadly chronic illnesses) in 2011deemed in a statement "...the spread of non-communicable diseases as a socio-economic and development challenge of epidemic proportions..." . In another report from
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Lifestyle Disease A lifestyle disease is one where a person’s choice in how they live their life – what they eat‚ how they socialize‚ where they work‚ how they care of themselves – either causes or increases their chances of contracting. This makes them different from other diseases which are caused by things such as genetics (inherited from family background) or chance (like catching a cold from a friend). Modern life increases the number of people with lifestyle diseases. An industrialized
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implications of their lifestyle choices. Most of us seem to think “it won’t happen to me” when it comes to chronic diseases. Since we all know that we can safely eat a candy or even as many as thousands of candies or lay on the couch watching television day after day without seeing any immediate harmful effects‚ it can be difficult to imagine that we are slowly developing chronic diseases over time. This concept of developing diseases over time from the specific lifestyle choices that each of us
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Introduction * Definition of Healthy Lifestyle (2011): healthy lifestyle will make you fit‚ energetic‚ and reduced risk for disease. * The way to stay healthy and long comfortable life are by doing a lot of exercise‚ eat healthy food and get enough sleep Body The way to stay healthy and long comfortable life is do a lot of exercise. 1. Have a moderate and regular exercise * Healthy Lifestyle (2011) listed that 30 minutes a day of moderate aerobic exercise can burn calories and
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& self-esteem. How film‚ TV & music affirm the validity of sexual activity for teens; alcohol use. Aggression & violence. Paper Introduction: The Effect of Media on Teenagers The media exerts an enormous‚ almost a normative influence‚ over the lives of men‚ women‚ adolescents and children. It influences‚ particularly among teenagers‚ the ways in which individuals and groups dress‚ talk‚ behave‚ and think (Teen People‚ p. 28). The media‚ in the forms of movies‚ television‚ radio‚ and print as well
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Western lifestyle often referred as an intolerant culture in the eastern countries. In the western socialization‚ limitation has an obvious vary from the socialization limits that we practice in the eastern country. This allows the teenagers especially to have different mentality across the globe. The main issues faced by the society nowadays are the teenagers in our country tend to be influenced by the western culture and behaving‚ directly bringing about the social problems to the society. The
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The Impact of Technology on Teenagers As technology advances‚ so do teenagers‚ and the rest of the people from all around the world. Technology has made a huge impact on today´s society and teens have shown to be the most interested on the topic. We live surrounded by technology‚ we can find it everywhere and in all shapes and sizes‚ these amazing gadgets seem to be changing constantly. Technology takes place in our daily life and also infers in the way we talk‚ the way we dress‚ what we listen
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Howard‚ Prime Minster of Australia‚ to hear the concerns of Australia‚ a conclusive survey was conducted and revealed that children and teenagers are not aware of the major issues regarding mobile phones. Consequently‚ these issues need to be recognized by youth and society in order to prevent the harmful effects regarding addiction‚ health and debt amongst teenagers. These findings will be discussed in great detail in regard to health effects‚ addiction and debt along with recommendations to alleviate
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