Lifestyle and Health

1. Habits Lifestyle and Health

2. How Does our lifestyle affect our health? • There are a variety of lifestyle choices which affect our health, and they all effect each other: • Habits • Diet • Environment

3. HABITS

4. Alcohol • Long-term effects • Each year approximately 3000 people die as a result of excessive alcohol consumption and around 101 000 people are hospitalized. Long-term excessive alcohol consumption is associated with: • heart damage • high blood pressure and stroke • liver damage • cancers of the digestive system • other digestive system disorders (e.g. stomach ulcers) • sexual impotence and reduced fertility • increasing risk of breast cancer • sleeping difficulties • brain damage with mood and personality changes • concentration and memory problems

5. Drug Abuse • Any form of addiction to a drug, medical or illegal. Drug Addiction can cause depression, projectile vomiting, loss of common sense, aids anti-socialism, fatal diseases and a long list of other side effects. There are various different forms of drugs including intervenes, Inhaled, smoked, patches, pills and drunk.

6. Diet What you eat greatly affects your health. Scientific studies have shown time and again that choosing healthy foods can reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. A healthy diet can help prevent cancer, since up to 60 percent of cancer cases are diet-related. Healthy foods can also help you maintain a healthy weight. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, close to 100 million Americans are overweight or obese. Being obese or overweight substantially increases the risk of morbidity from several conditions, including heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, stroke, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, and several types of cancer.

7. Wealth Wealth plays a major part in your health, because the wealthier you are the more likely you go to the doctor regularly, have a high standard of hygene and live a healthier life in general. It can affect all of the other parts of your life. Prolonged neglect to your health can lead to serious defitiency, cholexerol related problems, progressed tumours and cancer and other life threatening diseases. Not to mention that the wealthy are less likely to ignore hygene and therefore have less germs around them.

8. Environment Your environment encompasses everything and everyone around you. A good environment is one where your surroundings are free of germs, where there isn’t any dust or pollen, safety hazards or dangers. A bad environment is one where your surrounded by people and things that can hurt you, make you sick, depressed or emotionally unstable. Depression, injuries, common diseases, unbalanced chemical levels, or deficiencies can all be caused by a bad environment. An obvious example would be that children who go to schools are affected by there environment because when you have that many people in one place, where they are touching and feeling everything, you are exposing yourself to germs. If you’re being bullied at school and are depressed, that is your mental environment affecting your health.

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