Lifestyle
plays a vital role in health, wellness and fitness. Today, vast changes have
occurred in the lives of all people.
The modern
urban lifestyle causes some negative changes in society and affects our
physical and emotional health.
Malnutrition, unhealthy modern life habits, smoking, alcohol consumption, drug abuse, stress, etc., are the presentations of an unhealthy lifestyle.
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Modern Lifestyle and Health
Lifestyle
cannot explain everything about life and health, but lifestyle is one of the
most important instructions for life and health.
A large
number of studies have shown that the main factors affecting human health have
undergone fundamental changes.
The
development of society, the improvement of living standards, and the change of
lifestyle have brought some undesirable effects on human health, resulting in
some new lifestyle diseases, or "modern civilization disease" or
"wealth disease".
The
pathogens of lifestyle diseases are not bacteria or viruses, but bad
lifestyles, i.e., the result of long-term accumulation of multiple factors such
as irrational nutrition, smoking, alcoholism, lack of exercise, and mental
health.
A healthy
and happy life has a similar healthy lifestyle; while a sickly and unfortunate
life also has a similar "experience"-an unhealthy lifestyle that
leads to misfortune and continues to produce disease and pain.
Therefore,
fostering a healthy, civilized, and scientific lifestyle and strengthening
self-health management are important means to prevent and treat lifestyle
diseases.
The modern
lifestyle is the embodiment of the modern economic foundation in the realm of
life.
With
large-scale urbanization and various industrial pollution, people's living
environment has undergone significant changes. Various natural elements closely
related to human existence, such as air, water, forest, and space, are
gradually retreating from people’s senses and life and replaced by tall
buildings, noisy streets, turbid gas, and rigidity.
In
particular, the quality of the basic natural elements directly related to human
health, such as soil, water, and atmosphere, is declining sharply.
The
alienation between man and nature is a mentality. It is mainly manifested in
that people's value orientation and life concepts are subject to the trend of
technology and commercialization, which makes life present a strong humanistic
color.
The greatest
achievement of industrial civilization is the creation of huge social wealth
and a developed commodity economy, but with the miraculous growth of material
wealth and economic prosperity, the spirit has shown a trend of shrinking and
weakening.
On the
material and spiritual balance, modern life has undergone a serious tilt.
The
"crisis of faith", "moral slippage", and "loss of
value" have become the laments of the times.
Selfishness,
narrow-mindedness, short-sightedness, and superficiality are manifestations of
unhealthy personalities. Under the squeeze of material gravity, people's spiritual
life has become synonymous with sensory stimulation.
The rapid
changes in contemporary social life, the unprecedented increase in efficiency
awareness, the rapid development of mass media and the high expansion of
information flow have increased the living load of modern people; the
differentiation of material interests and the prominent personal standard have
caused modern interpersonal relationships.
It is
becoming more and more complicated and difficult to grasp. Under such a big
survival situation, modern people are in a state of restlessness, and life is
infused with more blindness and competitiveness.
The nervous
spirit, fluctuating emotions, and exhausted hearts have made modern people lose
their leisure. In a leisurely mood, life is like a monotonous noise.
There is no
rhythm, just blindly noisy, so the tiredness of living has become a universal
feeling of modern people.
The above
aspects are interrelated and interact with each other, which not only brings a
series of ecological and social problems but also poses threats and hidden
dangers to human's own health, leading to the emergence and existence of a
large number of lifestyle diseases.
Lifestyle
diseases have many manifestations: such as high-calorie, high-protein,
high-fat, which can cause diseases to varying degrees.
The pursuit
of sensory stimulation and a one-sided understanding of nutrition have caused
many factors that are not conducive to health in the food composition and
eating habits of modern people.
Another
concentrated manifestation of lifestyle diseases is in health and beauty. There
are signs that modern people’s physique, stamina, and ability to resist
diseases have also deteriorated compared with the predecessors.
The modern
lifestyle has brought mankind into a "semi-healthy era". The
prosperity of various beauty techniques and the adoption of a large number of
cosmetics are a manifestation of people's rejection of natural forms under the
influence of modern culture.
People
pursue external "beauty" while taking on the harmful factors to
health.
The report
of the World Health Organization confirms that 40% of the problem of human
healthy life span lies in genetics and objective environmental conditions: of
which 15% are genetic factors, 10% are social factors, 8% are medical
conditions, and 7% are living environment and geographic climate conditions. ;
And 60% need their own efforts to "build" a good healthy lifestyle.
Therefore, from a young age, one should pay attention to health, choose a healthy and civilized lifestyle, know self-care so that oneself can "be less sick, and achieve a good health goal.