Lifestyle, Stress, and Disorders
Lifestyle-related disorders are the important risk factors, which are widely distributed in the population and greatly influenced by the lifestyle of the urban people. Lifestyle diseases or diseases of longevity or diseases of civilization are diseases th
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Abstract
Lifestyle-related disorders are the important risk factors, which are widely distributed in the population and greatly influenced by the lifestyle of the urban people. Lifestyle diseases or diseases of longevity or diseases of civilization are diseases that appear to increase in frequency as countries become more industrialized and people live longer. Some maintain a distinction between diseases of longevity and diseases of civilization. Certain diseases, such as diabetes or asthma, appear at greater rates in young populations living in the “Western” way; their increased incidence is not related to age, so disease of longevity cannot accurately be used interchangeably for all diseases. In many developed as well as developing countries, people’s diet has changed dramatically which generally is with increases in consumption of meat, dairy products, vegetable oils, fruit juice, soft drinks, and alcoholic beverages and decreases in consumption of starchy staple foods such as bread, potatoes, rice, and maize flour. Factors in diet, sedentary lifestyle, and the house are thought to influence susceptibility to the many diseases. These determinants of the lifestyle are expressed through intermediate risk factors, such as raised blood glucose, abnormal blood lipids, high blood pressure, and overweight/obesity. The other aspects of lifestyle have also changed like reduction in physical activity, mostly living indoors, stress, and consumption of alcohol or smoking. Stress is now being linked to cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory infections, and suppressed immune functions. Due to many of these changes in lifestyle, people are getting prone for many diseases like diabetes and cancer. Studies also suggest that diets and/or lifestyle of different populations might partly determine their rates of cancer, and the basis for this hypothesis was strengthened by results of studies showing that people who migrate from one country to another generally acquire the cancer rates of the new host country, suggesting that environmental rather than genetic factors are the key determinants of the international variation in cancer rates.
© Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017 V. Gupta et al., Basic and Applied Aspects of Biotechnology, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0875-7_22
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Introduction
Lifestyle-related disorders are the important risk factors, which are widely distributed in the population and greatly influenced by the lifestyle of the urban people. Lifestyle diseases or diseases of longevity or diseases of civilization are diseases that appear to increase in frequency as countries become more industrialized and people live longer [17]. Some maintain a distinction between diseases of longevity and diseases of civilization. Certain diseases, such as diabetes or asthma, appear at greater rates in young populations living in the “Western” way. Their increased incidence is not related to age, so disease of longevity cannot accurately be used interchangeably for all diseases. In many developed as
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