Lifestyle/Degenerative Diseases
While we attempt to improve our quality of life, the need to combat lifestyle/degenerative diseases seems to increase alarmingly as well. Lifestyle diseases (also called diseases of longevity or diseases of civilization) are diseases that appear to increase in frequency as countries become more industrialized and people live longer. They include Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, cancer, chronic liver disease or cirrhosis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease(Angina), nephritis or chronic renal failure, acne, stroke, depression and obesity (Wikipedia)
At the start of 1900’s, the top three causes of death in the United States were pneumonia/influenza, tuberculosis, and diarrhea/enteritis. Communicable diseases accounted for about 60 percent of all deaths. At this time heart disease and cancer were ranked number four and eight respectively. Since the 1940s, the majority of deaths in the United States have resulted from heart disease, cancer, and other degenerative diseases. And, by the late 1990s, degenerative diseases accounted for more than 60 percent of all deaths (National Center for Health Statistics, National Office of Vital Statistics). Lifestyle disease is also on the rise in Asia. Mounting evidence showed that more people in Asia and the Pacific will be dying of chronic degenerative diseases rather than infectious ones by 2015 (southasia.oneworl.net).
Factors in diet, lifestyle, and the home environment are thought to influence susceptibility to the mentioned degenerative diseases. Smoking, alcohol and drug abuse as well as the lack of exercise may increase the risk of certain diseases in later life. It is also believed that the main culprit causing the rapid rise of degenerative diseases has been the deterioration in nutritious levels of food. More high fat and high sugar foods; food preservation techniques; and improved farming methods have all contributed in one way or another to the lack of proper levels of nutrition in food. Add to this low cost food, more processed foods to satisfy commercial needs rather than seasonal fresh foods, less physical exercise, increased leisure time, and continued improvements in modes of transport and it begins to take it's toll.
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