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13 October, 2008

LIFESTYLE DISEASES

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Our HEALTH:The greatest gift of god.Perhaps we all know that.Being a young physician myself,i wanted to open this blog and discuss a few things.
Throughout centuries we humans have been plagued my numerous diseases.They have been a scourge to mankind for many centuries.To name a few 1.Tuberculosis
2.malaria
3.polio
4.tetanus
5.diptheria etc.
The developed countries have dealt with these diseases.but the developing countries are still dealing with these diseases.
Now my main topic.As the economy has progressed,it has brought with it a set of disease broadly called LIFESTYLE DISEASES.These are 1.HEART DISEASE
2.DIABETES
3.WEIGHT RELATED DISORDERS
4.VARIOUS TYPES OF CANCERS
5.MENTAL DISORDERS
These problems,believe me has reached epidemic proportions.lot's of poeple are suffering from this problems.But you will be surprised to know,that most of the risk factors for these disease are preventable,yes it's true very few are not in our hands.But if we can take care of the preventable risk factors we decrease the risk of procuring these lifestyle disease a lot.
In my next post i will give some valuable informations how to prevent the risk factors ,taking each lifestyle disease separately.
If anybody has any querries regarding health ,please be friendly enough to ask.
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