Impact of Modern Lifestyle on Health in Human Being

Prakash Kumar C, Physical Education Director, Government First Grade College, Udayapura, Channarayapatna –Taluk, Hassan-Dist, Karnataka-State, cpk221173@gmail.com

Abstract

Lifestyle is an essential factor in health. Unhealthy behaviour can lead to illness, disability and even death. Recent medical reports show that there has been a rise in health-related issues like metabolic diseases, joint and skeletal problems, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and obesity. As a result, people resort to fast-foods, frozen foods loaded with preservatives and skip on healthy nutritious food. Hey are unique because they have created natural solutions for modern lifestyle challenges using ancient wisdom and validated using modern scientific clinic trails. Maharishi Ayurveda focuses on a lifestyle that promotes holistic health for your mind, body and soul driving significant improvement in your quality of life some individuals are more interested in intellectual or emotional health than physical health. Others can draw great satisfaction from their relationships with other people or engaging in work for religious ideals. Health dimensions form a whole, which interacts to ensure efficiency and comfort functions. Cultivating a certain proportion entails the development of the rest. Similarly, missing a single dimension can have severe effects on the overall health.

Introduction

To maintain a good health, we must pay attention to all five scales, identifying links between them and trying to keep them in balance. This gives rise to unwanted diseases and afflictions. Obesity is on the rise and has become a chronic problem, along with diabetes and high blood pressure. It also affects body weight and leads to obesity. . They can also be cured with appropriate treatment. In regard to each factor, systematic planning at the micro and macro level can provide a social and individual healthy lifestyle. Lack of sleep can also lead to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Based on a study from NHFS, the number of obese people in India has doubled in the past ten years. Research has proven that a healthy lifestyle like appropriate diet, satisfactory physical fitness level and a healthy weight can provide health benefits. In summary, for many of us, the modern lifestyle and the stress it causes affects our physical, psychological and social health. Hence, it has become vital to understand the relationship and maintain the right balance.

Impact of Modern Lifestyle on Human Health

Today, wide changes have occurred within the lifetime of all individuals. Unhealthy diet, malnutrition, alcohol consuming, smoking, drug abuse, stress, anxiety and so on, are the demonstrations of an unhealthy lifestyle that they are used as an effective form of lifestyle.
Apart from this, citizens have to face new challenges in their lives. For example, rising new technologies within the Internet and virtual communication networks, take our world to major challenges which lead people to physical and mental health problems. The challenge is the misuse and excessive use of technology. Therefore, according to the current studies, it may be aforementioned that: lifestyle has a considerable effect on human physical and mental health. There are completely different types of these effects. In some ethnicities, consanguinity or cognition is a major form of lifestyle that may cause genetic diseases. Improvement in this unhealthy lifestyle is a preventive factor to reduce the rate of genetic disorders.

Various Modern Lifestyle habits that influence health

1. Unhealthy Diet

Diet is the most crucial factor in lifestyle and has a direct relation with health. The way people eat has also changed from before. Earlier, the diet used to include a lot of vegetables and fruits which gave nutritional value. With the fast-paced modern lifestyle, the diet has also become fast. In a competitive world, people have no time to cook meals or sit and eat slowly

2. Lack of physical fitness or exercise

Along with poor eating habits, lack of physical fitness is a significant problem in modern lifestyle. When it is together, it can cause damage to a person's health. The study from WHO tells that around 60-85% of the worldwide population does not engage in enough physical activity.

3. Lack of sleep

Many aspects of modern lifestyle like television, computer screens, longer commutes, the blurring of the line between work and personal time have contributed to sleep deprivation. For a healthy lifestyle, a person requires a minimum of seven hours of good sleep. Sleep deprivation prevents the body to strengthen the immune system and produce cytokines to fight infection.

4. Substance Abuse

The modern-day addiction of alcohol, nicotine and many more carcinogenic substances has become a pursuit of pleasure. The easy availability of temptations along with constant stress results in an unprecedented epidemic of addiction, depression, anxiety and chronic disease.

5. Technology addiction

Modern technology brings certain advantages to people and makes things better, such as fast communication and ease of travelling. Machines are used for everyday chores like cooking, washing, cleaning, thereby reducing the need for physical work and over a while, making people dependent on it. Computers and the internet are a standard part of every household Excessive use of Cell phone: Lately, smart phones have become an essential part of every person's life. But, it can be a blessing or a curse. People have become obsessive and are losing the humane aspect of their lives. Constant staring at a screen causes short-sightedness, low concentration and other health risks. Disturbed sleep: Technology addiction and excessive dependency on gadgets are causing people to develop poor sleeping habits. By staying up late, one develops a lack of concentration and focus. Development in children: Research suggests that when children use more technology, it results in stunted cognitive growth and poor. Advanced technology facilitates the lifetime of individuals. Misuse of technology could lead to unpleasant consequences.
For instance, using a Smartphone, computer, and other devices up to midnight could impact the pattern of sleep and it may cause sleep disturbance.
Addiction to use mobile phones or the internet is expounded on depression symptoms.

How can Parents Manage and Limit the Child's

Parents often try to balance their child's screen time, for this, they may be suffering from many difficulties trying to limit family digital connections.
The importance of parental technical surveillance has been enhanced by evidence such as the connection between handheld screen time and speech delay in young children, the collaboration between Smartphone-screen and low sleep quality and the link between the mobile phone and internet addiction and depression or anxiety among college-age students.  Screen the for children is not bad at all. These days, people have become so obsessed with technology and social media that the idea of leaving any of them can be very uncomfortable. The relationship contradiction finds that most people, on average, are less popular on social media than their friends, which can lead to being less joyous and less happy. As far as we know, it has never been antecedently shown that the users of social media networks, in general, are less popular than their friends but they are less happy.
This study indicates that happiness is linked to popularity, as well as that the majority of people on social media networks are not as happy as their friends because of this relationship between friendship and popularity.
Therefore, the rates of technology and social media usage are rapidly climbing.
Face book and Insta gram alone claim the combined monthly user base of two billion people all over the world. Evidence that connects the relationship between screen time and well-being is also weak at the highest level of attachment.

Conclusion

        Modern life can enhance the risk of some physical and mental health issues, and it is very difficult to live with such psychological conditions and any delay in treatment may increase the symptoms of diseases but trying to balance online and real-world social relationships, thinking positive, can help keep our mental health or psychological state in check. They may remain only at the level of ideas, awakening feelings of frustration instead of concrete plans for change. Without goals, one cannot measure progress or success when it comes regarding indulgence. Obviously, the goals must be realistic to the needs, desires and availability of individual inducing self respect. Setting unrealistic targets due to emotional distress creates cognitive dissonance, which leads to failures that undermine the image, self-esteem and can jeopardize physical health

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