Lifestyle Diseases

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Developed countries have industrialized and advanced over the past decades. We have evolved from gathering berries to drive-throughs and from walking up the stairs to taking a ride on an elevator. All of these advancements in society have created “a better world” for the people, but what we often misunderstand is that this dramatic progression in society has brought its own luggage of problems along. This “luggage” contains a variety of deadly conditions known as Lifestyle Diseases. These lifestyle diseases are harmful for your health and will continue affecting future generations if we don’t put a stop to it. The only way to do so is to work towards prevention, the best medicine for lifestyle diseases.
One of the major consequences of industrialization and modernization in society are lifestyle diseases. Lifestyle diseases are modern sicknesses that are caused or accelerated by the way we live our daily lives. This includes what we eat and the activities we do each day. Over time, wrong decisions will take a negative toll on our bodies. Lifestyle diseases differ from other diseases because it is caused by the way we behave and live our lives and there are simple preventions. Unlike a cold, lifestyle diseases such as diabetes cannot be “cured” with a dose of cold medicine or by waiting it off, lifestyle diseases are chronic and must be treated properly. This proves that there are consequences to our daily decisions and actions.
There are several factors that contribute to lifestyle diseases. Of course, for many of these lifestyle diseases, there are uncontrollable risk factors, such as your age, gender, and race, but by limiting the controllable risk factors, you can prevent the lifestyle disease all together. The f...

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