LIFE STYLE DISEASE: A disease associated with the way a person or group of people live. Lifestyle diseases include atherosclerosis, heart disease and stroke; obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancer, chronic backache and hypertension; and diseases associated with smoking, alcohol, drug abuse and premature mortality. The lack of self confidence and increasing pressures of urban life has increased our vulnerability to various mental ailments including depression and suicide tendencies.
The Lack of safe sex practice and immoral behaviour has led to sexually transmitted disease including HIV and AIDS. WLWF CONCERN: It is predicted that globally, deaths from life style disease will increase by 77 percent between 1990 and 2020 and that most of these deaths will occur in the developing regions of the world including India. As per the report, jointly prepared by the World Health Organization and the…
