Impact of Lifestyle on Health

Life style is an important factor for healthy living.

The relationship of lifestyle and health are highly interrelated.

According to WHO, 60% of related factors to individual health and quality of life are correlated to lifestyle.

Due to unhealthy lifestyle people encounter illness and disability and even death.

Problems like overweight, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, joint and skeletal problems, violence and so on, can be caused by an unhealthy lifestyle.

Unhealthy life style such as unhealthy diet, smoking, alcohol consuming, drug abuse, stress play major role on health of individuals.

By altering hormones, lifestyle factors also can affect energy metabolism, cellular growth, steroid metabolism, inflammatory mediation, DNA repair and immune function.

Also malnutrition increases morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases, and can increase the severity of an infection and hinder the response to treatment.

To remain healthy, people need to adopt healthy behaviours.

Physical activity, cessation of tobacco consumption, eating a high-fibre, low-fat diet, controlling body weight, and learning to cope with stress reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and premature mortality.

It requires coordination among many sectors, such as health, sports, education and culture policy, media and information, transport, urban planning, local governments, and financial and economic planning and policies.