Health – Lifestyle Disease & Work Place Stress

Lifestyle Disease & Work Place Stress

Modern society is threatened by life style diseases and one reason for this is work place stress.  Lifestyle/chronic diseases, specifically heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and some types of cancer develops due to modern lifestyle behaviours like worry, stress, physical inactivity, unhealthy food habits, smoking, alcohol, use and abuse of drugs etc.

Our body responds to stress by releasing adrenalin and cortisol.  The release of these hormones will speed the heart rate, slow down digestion, blood will rush to the major muscle groups, blood pressure rises and other changes occur to counter the stress threat.  This response to acute stress experience is the fight or flight response.  When the state of stress is relived our body returns to the normal state, which is relaxation response.

The problem with work place stress is that, it is an ongoing one and it leads to chronic stress.  That means our body is always in a state of fight or flight response.  This ongoing state leads to physical and mental illness.  A research study done among the working age population shows a sharp rise in life style diseases like heart problem and stroke.

Identifying the cause of lifestyle diseases and eliminating the cause of diseases is the best way to healthy lifestyle.  The causes include dehydration of body, malnutrition, fatigue due to lack of sleep, poor health and inflammation.  Prevent chronic diseases by changing to healthy lifestyle behaviours and achieve wellness.

The solution to life style disease is healthy life style and stress management.  There are many different stress management techniques of which we discussed Meditation, which is fast acting; practice it regularly over time and gain even greater benefits.  An individual’s lifestyle develops when he/she is young, make them aware of lifestyle diseases and their causes, teach them healthy living in the young age itself.  

Meditation

Meditation is a practice in which an individual trains the mind to generate an emotional state for the purpose of mental health and to sooth anger, hatred, stress etc.  Meditation is one of the solutions for work place stress which leads to life style diseases.  READ MORE.....

The Anti-ageing Strategy

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Wellness & Lifestyle

Wellness is a process of imparting knowledge and encouraging others to practice healthy habits in all dimensions of a person's life, including Social, Physical, Emotional, Occupational, Intellectual, Environmental and Spiritual well-being.   Wellness is the act of practicing healthy lifestyle in your day to day life to attain a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, instead of leading a life without disease and a weak physical and mental state.  READ MORE....