THE NEGATIVE LIFESYLE AND CONTEMPORARY DISEASES

Abstract

The so-called "modern negative lifestyle" has an essential role in the occurrence of multiple diseases. The advantages of technological progress are beyond question; our existence is longer and much more beautiful than of our predecessors. Unfortunately, this "progress" goes hand in hand with a lot of deficiencies. Among the most commune ones we can mention: unhealthy nutrition, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, pollution, stress, alcohol and other harmful substances excess, drug abuse, spiritual and moral unbalance. The diseases favored by these unhealthy factors were called "diseases of comfort", including obesity and other metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, neuro- psychiatric diseases, muscle-skeletal disorders etc. In order to combat them, the first step consists in ameliorating the lifestyle, by: adequate nutrition, physical activity, maintaining a normal body weight, maintaining normal values for arterial tension, plasma glucose and lipids, smoking cessation, moderate alcohol consumption etc.