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Lifestyle Diseases

The health status of the public in the world is on the worrying trend. The world is facing a situation whereby 35% of people are suffering from lifestyle diseases. No nations spared with this trend taking shape in the world (Araujo et al. 2017, June). The United States of America is one of the most affected nations in the world in the hands of lifestyle diseases. The top six diseases in America are all attributed to lifestyle diseases; these are such as heart diseases, cancer, diabetes, stroke, muscular diseases, and Alzheimer diseases. The impacts of these diseases have been devastating across the world as the treatment process is too expensive to be afforded by all individuals and thus leading to an increase in deaths across the world.

Therefore, this paper focuses on the impact and the way lifestyle diseases have affected the lives of elderly individuals in society. This also indicates the kind of the lifestyle that has been attributed to the conditions that majority of these individuals have found themselves in and finally putting in place some of the most appropriate measures that can be put in place to ensure that there is controlling of these dangerous diseases in the world. Besides that, there is also the relation of the past years when these kinds of diseases were not as common as they are in current situations. Therefore, this paper tries to help identify the situation and recommend some of the most appropriate measures that can be used to prevent the situation from worsening.

The kind of life people leads today has changed over recent decades. Technology and machines have made working easier with higher production being attributed to these dynamics in human life. However, with the simplicity of kind of life that people lead there are impacts that human beings face, this is especially among the adults in society. The activities that they used to engage in to keep their bodies fit have been replaced by the machines and technologies making the work easier with higher efficiency being recorded. As a result, there are fewer activities that people engage in leading to cases of overweight and obesity which are major causes of obesity, and heart diseases.

Besides that, eating habits have also changed eventually. For instance, with little activities that people engage into, they have also resorted into fast-moving foods that are characterized with the high level of cholesterol and fats thus making an approximate of 2 among 6 adults in United State being overweight with the high chances of being obese with time. However, we have not been a nation that is affected with such kind of issues, as this has been escalated with the way human life has been made easier and the prevailing the way human beings have resorted into easier options of solving things. In the 1970s there were limited cases of such diseases due to the kind of life that people lived (Lund et al. 2017). There were limited cases of consumption of fast-moving foods and people involved in exercise activities that kept them fit.

Additionally, the World Health Organization has also indicated that 90% of the patients suffering from lifestyle diseases have in a way or another involved in the use of drugs (Min et al. 2018). These are individuals that have engaged in smoking, constant alcohol with the special case being for the addicts, and the unhealthy choices that people make. Poor decision making on the kind of lifestyle that people lead has resulted in making they're difficult to bear. For instance, chronic diseases such as heart diseases and cancer cases that have been rampant in the nation are highly expensive to manage which in most cases have often ended up with families being left poor and the life of their loved ones is also at risk.

Lifestyle diseases are rated as one of the major causes of deaths in the United States of America. For instance, for the individuals aged between 45 to 65 years of age cancer has been the major cause of their deaths. Heart diseases are also major causes of deaths for the individuals aged above 65 years of age. This is an indicator of the reduced activities that these people engage in and the kind of lifestyle that they might have engaged in during their early stages of lives hence making it difficult to avoid deaths caused by these lifestyle diseases.

The deaths caused by lifestyle conditions have significantly increased over the last few decades. For instance, there has been an increase of 15% of deaths caused by cancer, 12% deaths caused by heart conditions, 16% deaths caused by obesity among the adults in the United States of America`s population (Jhony et al. 2017). However, the current studies show that there are also increased cases of obesity in the nation which is highly caused by the poor lifestyle decisions that people have made in their lives. For instance, limited activities being engaged in and the consumption of improperly prepared foods from unverified sources, smoking, and heavy alcohol consumption. Therefore, these decisions have not only affected the adults but also affected the minors that tend to have unplanned eating habits thus leading to increased cases of obesity and the mortality rates.

This research is based on the use of data collected from medical facilities and data collected from homes for the aged. In this case, to obtain an accurate data we used methods as such as observation in the community, we observed the kind of life that people led, the level of advances made in terms of technology made in their lives and how they have been able to put technology into their lives. Besides that, the use of cases studies on the adults and the rampant diseases causing the deaths among adults in various states of America proved to be important in the provision of data required in this study.

Additionally, we're also able to use questionnaire methods to collect data from the affected individuals. For instance, these questionnaires were issued out to both medical practitioners and the affected individuals in the community. As a result, the study indicates that there is indeed a significant increase in lifestyle diseases in the world. This has led to an increase in early deaths among the majority of the people in America (Araujo, et al. 2017, June).

However, the lifestyle diseases that have become rampant in the United States of America can only be attributed to the poor decisions made by the Americans. Poor eating habits, excessive consumption of alcohol, smoking with little engagement with the body exercises to keep their bodies fit (Parikesit et al. 2016). Therefore, this means managing these conditions depends on the ability of the public to change their lifestyle. As such, the health of American adults depends on the decisions that they make daily.

There is a need to change on the lifestyle that these people lead due to the impacts that these diseases pose to humanity. For instance, the majority of the affected families have often been left in poverty lines due to the expensive management of these diseases. However, in worse cases, these diseases have often ended up causing deaths to the individuals suffering from these diseases.

In summary, lifestyle diseases have become rampant issues in society and the issue of concern in the world. It's not only about America managing its population on the issues that have been raised on lifestyle conditions but it all concerns all individuals and nations in the world. This would ensure that there are public campaigns on better lifestyles that would not lead to poor decisions making poor lifestyle decisions that would endanger their lives.

References

Araujo, M., Mejova, Y., Weber, I., & Benevenuto, F. (2017, June). Using Facebook ads audiences for global lifestyle disease surveillance: Promises and limitations. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference (pp. 253-257). ACM.

Lund, N., Petersen, A., Snoer, A., Jensen, R. H., & Barloese, M. (2019). Cluster headache is associated with unhealthy lifestyle and lifestyle-related comorbid diseases: Results from the Danish Cluster Headache Survey. Cephalalgia, 39(2), 254-263.

Jhony, A., Dysinger, W., Herzog, S., dos Santos, F., Villegas, H., & Ezinwa, M. (2017). Lifestyle Medicine: Working together to reverse the chronic disease epidemic in Latin America. Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana, 17(1), 10-12.

Min, J., Zhao, Y., Slivka, L., & Wang, Y. (2018). Double burden of diseases worldwide: coexistence of undernutrition and overnutrition‐related non‐communicable chronic diseases. Obesity reviews, 19(1), 49-61.

Parikesit, D., Mochtar, C. A., Umbas, R., & Hamid, A. R. A. H. (2016). The impact of obesity towards prostate diseases. Prostate international, 4(1), 1-6.