For some time now, very shocking and worrying changes have been seen in the graph of health and physical capacity of the people living in India. There was a time when people in the country fell ill mostly due to bacteria, viruses or various types of infections. It is a matter of relief that due to modern medicine, these infectious diseases have reduced significantly, but on the contrary, our everyday bad habits and sedentary lifestyle are now giving rise to new and more serious diseases. This is not a fabricated claim, but this big and scary truth has come to light in the recently released report of the country’s most reliable ‘National Family Health’ (NFHS-6) survey. In such a situation, it has become very important for every citizen to know what are the four major diseases that are affecting us due to our own mistakes and how they can be avoided.
Obesity: Junk food addiction and ‘stress eating’ are becoming the biggest reasons for increasing body fat.
In today’s time, increasing body weight and excess fat accumulated around the stomach has become such a global epidemic, due to which every second person is troubled. According to medical experts, the biggest and main reason for obesity is our wrong eating habits. The main reason for this is the consumption of highly processed and junk food available in the market instead of pure and fresh home-made nutritious food. Due to this type of eating habits, internal inflammation continuously increases in the body, which ultimately pushes the person towards obesity. Apart from this, mental stress in today’s busy life has also been found to be directly responsible for increasing body fat. Due to stress, people often become victims of ‘stress eating’ (overeating under stress), due to which weight starts increasing at an uncontrolled pace.
Hypertension: Deadly combination of salt hidden in fast food and mental stress.
Nowadays, due to changing lifestyle, the disease of hypertension i.e. high blood pressure is spreading rapidly among the youth as well as the elderly. The increasing excessive consumption of ready-to-eat and fast food available in the market has taken this disease to every home. Salt and very strong spices are used as preservatives in these packed and fast foods, which have a direct effect on our blood vessels and suddenly increase the blood pressure level. Additionally, persistent mental stress at work or in family life makes the condition worse. When the mind is constantly under stress, the blood pressure remains constantly high, due to which the person easily becomes vulnerable to hypertension and later on it causes heart diseases.
Type 2 Diabetes: Dangerous result of increasing belly fat and lack of physical activity.
India has come to be known as the ‘Diabetes Capital’ of the world, and the biggest contributor to this is Type 2 diabetes. The biggest reason for the development of this disease is the increasing total body weight and the stubborn fat that accumulates especially around the belly fat. In the modern era, not doing physical labor or exercise, working sitting at one place for hours, and consuming excessive amounts of sweet drinks, junk food or packaged refined foods lead to insulin resistance. However, medical science believes that in some cases this disease can also be caused by genetics i.e. family history, but at present the main and biggest reason for its rapid spread is entirely our bad habits and careless lifestyle.
Asthma: Not only air pollution, smoking addiction and obesity are also suffocating breathing.
Often people associate the disease of asthma only with increasing external air pollution or dust, but health experts say that our internal habits are also responsible for the increasing cases of asthma these days. Smoking cigarettes and beedis and continuous consumption of tobacco in any form completely destroys the functionality of our lungs, which leads to serious respiratory diseases. Apart from this, obesity has also emerged as a major and hidden cause of asthma. When body weight becomes much higher than normal, excessive physical pressure starts increasing on the chest and lung walls. Due to this increased pressure, the lungs do not get enough space to expand, due to which the person starts having difficulty in breathing and becomes an asthma patient.
How to protect yourself from these lifestyle diseases? Include these 5 good habits in your daily routine today.
If you also want to keep yourself and your family safe from these serious and chronic diseases forever, then you will have to strictly improve some of your very bad habits from today and right now. Top doctors of the country have suggested the following 5 very easy and very effective measures to prevent these diseases:
Eat fresh and nutritious food: Say goodbye to canned and junk food from outside and eat a home-cooked, balanced diet rich in fresh, green vegetables and nutrients.
Pay attention to stress management: Don’t let mental stress overpower you. For this, take out at least 15 to 20 minutes daily for meditation and pranayam.
Be physically active: To always keep the body fit and active, walk briskly for at least 30 to 45 minutes daily, do yoga or exercise in the gym.
Simple Food, Good Life: Avoid oily, highly spicy and high salt food as much as possible and make a habit of eating simple food in daily life.
Maintain strict distance from drugs: To keep your lungs and entire body healthy, completely stay away from smoking, alcohol and consumption of any type of tobacco products.
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