Modern lifestyle: so harmful?

Health problems related to the modern lifestyle are rising steadily at an alarming rate, particularly in western societies. No one can deny that daily life is getting more and more mechanized and urbanized, this fact is beneficial for human comfort.

Yet it has several impacts on the healthiness level; time and effort spent during  physical activities are reduced considerably, indoor activities are taking over outdoor ones, without forgetting that leisure time is often spent playing computer or video games, eating snack bars, chatting online or on  television screens and so on,  which makes a large part of population partially or completely inactive physically.
 

The major reason for health problems referred to modern lifestyle is that traditional physical activities are overtaken by technical inventions; even for nearby places, people still prefer to drive rather than walk or cycle. Lifts and escalators have already supplanted taking stairs. This state of permanent laziness leads to a skeletal and metabolic lassitude, creating a fertile soil for different diseases and troubles.

 As explained, the drop in general population’s physical can be attributed to modern lifestyle - heavily automated – including various sluggishness guiding forces: television programs that idealize the current modern lifestyle, showing some physical activities as walking to work, implicitly, as a character of poor societies, without talking about advertisement mainstream and its tendencies toward processed food, and lifestyle mechanization .

No doubt the world is becoming closer and closer than ever before. Along with the advantages of that like the technological advancements and researches in the medical field, which have increased the treatment easiness, there are many downsides; people residing in cities are prey to high levels of aerial and aquatic pollution. Adding to it, the quick paced life and permanent stress present a heavy toll on the psychological and physical wellness, if we take into account the speeding rate of urbanization; it looks like the humanity is leading a life ridden with illness and precarious health.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of the health deteriorations due to modern lifestyle:

Stress: due to the modern lifestyle - highly competing - people these days are highly competitive, which cause them to preoccupy about all possibilities. This leads to unnecessary trepidation over future making present life pessimist and stressful. Sufficient sleep, self-confidence, practicing meditation and sports help to deal with anxiety and stress.

Computer Vision Syndrome: is an ergonomic hazard for millions of people who are glued to computer screen for several hours per day. It includes complaints of neck pain, double vision, photophobia, dry eyes, headaches etc. Experts advise consistently to take several breaks by closing your eyes, taking a walk, Also to keep healthy posture and a sufficient distance from computer screen

Hearing loss: The permanent use of ear bud headphones will eventually erode your hearing acuity; this is why the usage of headphones that fit outside the ear and lower volume are recommended in case long duration listening.

E-thrombosis and skeletal troubles: This condition affects those who sit for long time on desks or in front of computer without moving the lower part of the body. It is linked to deep vein thrombosis where blood clots form due to the bad circulation in deep veins, especially in legs. It could be lethal if these clots migrate to lung vessels blocking oxygenation of blood, called pulmonary thrombosis, without forgetting locomotor troubles as back pains, neck pains and so on resulting the same causes . If you are sitting for too long, give your feet regular exercise or walk around your desk, avoid sitting cross-legged and poor-fitting shoes.