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Lifestyle Diseases lead the current causes of mortality Innovative technology today has made living easier and more comfortable. Health trends today have forced us to sit for many long hours in the day, usually for school or work purposes, or maybe just relaxation. So many foods back then would take an average number of hours just to cook them, but nowadays we have instant noodles and packaged chips readily available at the nearest convenience store. Hours for leisure are spent on sitting down on a chair the entire day in front of the computer desk or the television. Primary Cause: Sedentary Lifestyle The major cause of lifestyle diseases would be one wherein lifestyle attributes to poor body condition. To be most specific, we have what would cover at least majority of lifestyle diseases: Sedentary lifestyle. It is a type of lifestyle with little or no physical activity. [Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedentary_lifestyle] Sedentary activites involve sitting, reading books, watching television, or using a computer. And as life has become more convenient, so has living. Lifestyle dictates exactly how fit a person is which is defined by how much he eats, how much exercise he gets, and etc. People are hardly aware of what degree their food intake is, and they ignore how having an average amount of hours for exercise. People that sit still more than 11 hours per day have a 40 percent higher risk than those that sit less than 4 hours per day. However those that exercise at least 5 hours per week are as healthy as those that sit less than 4 hours per day. [David W. Dunstan, PhD; Neville Owen, PhD, Arch Intern Med. 2012;172(6):500-501. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2012.209, 2012-03-26] Sedentary lifestyle has been found to cause even more deaths than smoking. 20% of all deaths of people 35 and older were attributed to a lack of physical activity. Unlike smoking, which targets mostly lung-related diseases, sedentary lifestyle is a more suitable generalization for all lifestyle diseases. Secondary Cause: Improper Dietary Habits Living life on the fast lane, there will always be a time when we must consume fastproduced products in order to satisfy our needs for convenience. And often when we cook our own food, we even add in many additives like Magic Sarap or Knorr which contain ingredients like Monosodium Glutamate that may increase flavor, but decreases health. A proper diet optimizes the health and well-being of the individual eating it. Many people nowadays prefer to eat meat and are picky with their vegetables. Along with that, they eat too many of what is needed. Some other people dont eat at all, being too concerned with keeping a slim shape. Improper dietary habits are held accounted for the obese and the anorexic. [Villarama II, J.M. Eating disorders: Its a Guy Thing, Too. Health Care, 103, 46-48]

Tertiary Cause: Indolence Common among the Filipinos is their lack of eagerness to act. Other than doing things when you can do them, procrastination happens at large for the Filipinos always holding it to the last minute. Laziness prevents a person to act even on things that are very much worth doing. Primary Effect: Cardiovascular Diseases One of the issues stated in the Philippine health system is that cardiovascular diseases ranked top for death. Cardiovascular disease closely related to sedentary lifestyle, such that improper dietary habits and lack of exercise could have attributed to these cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular diseases, such as stroke, are linked to our cholesterol levels. Cholesterol is needed for our bodys metabolism, but at exceeding levels it can be harmful. These can eventually build up within our arteries, which may then eventually cause cardiovascular diseases. [dela Cruz, S. A. MD. Get Bad Cholesterol in Control. Health Care, 103, 52-53]. People who are obese usually have improper dietary habits, or are too lazy to exercise. It makes sense that they are thus more prone to cardiovascular diseases. Secondary Effect: Diminished illness resistance Not only in sedentary lifestyles, but also those that involve harmful practices such as drinking and smoking. One for example is: Smoking is an established health hazard and is a major risk factor of debilitating and fatal medical conditions like heart attack, stroke, aneurysm, and cancer. [Lacuesta, V.C. MD. Getting Rid of Smoking Addiction. Health Care, 103, 42-43]. Bad habits can also contribute to the degradation of health. Another leading lifestyle disease is diabetes. An online article written by Pazzibugan, Dona cited that with as many as 1.4 million Filipino adults (aged 20 and above) acquiring the disease in the last five years [Pazzibugan, Dona. (10/30/2009) More Filipinos getting diabetes; doctors alarmed, blame lifestyle. Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved from http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/news/view/ 20091030-233046/More-Filipinos-gettingdiabetes-doctors-alarmed-blame-lifestyle] It is also cited in the same article that the diabetes has become more frequent at a younger age. Type 2 diabetes has now become more common nowadays when back then it was very rare. It is blamed on the youths little physical activity and high calorie diet both of which are correlating factors in lifestyle

Tertiary Effect: Shortened life expectancy. Numerous consumer goods such as beauty cosmetics, fast-food products, technological convenicences and others are introduced into the modern age. We start living life at a fast pace by boiling instant noodles for breakfast, putting on makeup to make up a good appearance, and cooking ready to eat microwave dinners, all while still doing what we do in our everyday lives. Many factors that affect shortening are obesity, lack of health including intra and interpersonal, and stress. Obesity for example is a known factor to affect life expectancy. Based on an article, Obesity shaves two to four years off the average lifespan, while being very obese can shorten your lifespan by 8 to 10 years, according to a new analysis of 57 studies including nearly 900,000 people. [Harding, A. (3/18/2009) Obesity can shorten lifespan up to a decade. Retrieved from http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-18/health/healthmag.obesity.lifespan_1_bmismortality-risk-body-mass-index/]

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