modern living has not made us weak,unhealthy and disease prone.how?
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yes it has...\n"...weak, unhealthy and disease prone."\n\n  All of these are the legacy of our life styles and trends towards lethargy.\n\n  We are weaker as individuals despite our knowledge of nutrition.  We also learned that fat tastes good.  Pleasure before function.  We eat more and more fat and gain weight as a world...North America seems to be leading the world in weight gain.  We know that excersize and an active lifestyle is condusive to strength so we spend more time on-line.  We don't even have the desire to get up and watch t.v. anymore...hail the active couch potato!\n\nUnhealthy and disease prone.  Our tendency is towards weaker and weaker immune systems.  Unfortunately, when you circumvent natural selection, you weaken the species--humans are weaker because of the "wonders of modern medicine."  We have anti-biotics to fight diseases for us and then procreate making future generations a step weaker than the previous.  If current trends continue--which they will--humans will one day have no immunity to anything without external help.  We will be like scuba divers depending entirely on our technology to survive in our own environment.\n\nAs man devolves he weakens to the point of extinction.  Our attitudes feed this de-evolution making us weaker by the generation.  We're on a roll folks.\n\nMany of us have a distinct distaste for genetic diversity, a concept that could temporarily stave off this devolvement.  What a waste!\n\nMost of us hate letting a disease "take its course" to strengthen the carrier.  To do so builds immunities in the individual!  To pass along the inability-to-build-immunities cripples the gene-pool but this exact debilitation is encouraged by medical technology.  It's hard to say against the moral masses that modern immunology is crippling the future of the human race.  In order to gain a short-term goal goal of relative temporary health, our future generations will suffer for eternity.
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we certainly arent beating the world in things that count ,, like education /health,, including Mental health\n we do have more food and more cars,and more pounds of fat ,and more debt. ever think how many people died so you can drive a hummer or fly to grannys for xmass?
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man your so right and sadly i feel like that day will never come where everybody wakes up and start reversing the evil ways of man.humans are the reasons why we have all the dieseases and cancers today,this is all fact,do you want to know how we are responsible for all these sicknesses,alright i'll tell you,it is first from domesticating animals a very long time ago and then after a long time those animals diseases were transmitted to us and then we moved out of our civilizations to conquer others and all that fun stuff LOL!!!! and then in doing that it spread and so on and so on.now as far as others like some of our cancers today and all etc.etc. some of them were created by our chemicals and manufactured goods.this is all fact and it is the horrible ugly truth that makes us so insane.all we can do now is hope to reverse the problems and mantain a healthy world.but we will never be the same as when man first walked the earth.
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some people are born with good genes and have been reared in an environment where food is a neccesity and not a crutch. they eat to live...not live to eat. there have been some recent studies showing a "fat gene" that links obesity to an addiction....and not just weak and lazy people who don't have the will power to diet and exercise.
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Sometimes, by the way we live, lack of sleep, poor eating choices, etc. Sometimes we're just hypochrondriacs stressed out for nothing. More often, it's not our fault.  It's bacteria, diseases & hereditary.
626884
It could be the golden years though people aren't smart enough to plan for it. Though sometimes our health, no matter how good we take care of ourselves, starts to fade. The best we can do is not get over weight, eat right take care of ourselves finacially, physically, emotionally mentally and most of all spiritally through Christ. I take care of the elderly and say all the time. Man, I don't want to get old.
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These lifestyle factors are very important due to the fact that they had helped, are helping and will help the human health.\n\nPast\n     The factors had helped many diseases to be discovered due to technology. And in turn, the scientists have developed different methods of how to prevent/cure these diseases.\n\nPresent\n     The factors had helped many individuals in the present day because these are in fact a way of life a human should have. Also, the present scientists are trying to find other cures for new diseases.\n\nFuture\n     The factors will establish a need for a healthy lifestyle for the future years. And as always, our future scientists will try to find a more effective cure for still uncured diseases.
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Thi biggest killers of otherwise healthy people are heart attacks and stroke, followed by cancer, then any number of inflammatory diseases and diabetes. Looking at the major risk factors for these, and especially which factors put you at risk for more than one, is a good way to go about deciding what to focus on:\n\nSmoking\nObesity\nHigh blood pressure\nHigh LDL, low HDL (cholesterol)\nPoor diet\nLack of exercise.\n\nTake care of these, and you cut your risk of serious disease over 50%, increase your lifespan, and more importantly, increase the number of years of health.
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Excercise more, eat healthy. it's not rocket science
71709
keep healthy (exercise and eat right) and avoid doing stupid or dangerous things
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Well, as a doctor I would say that because of comfort foods and sedentary way of life style and cos of spending hours on watching computer tv  we are prone to have obesity and I can tell you there are at least 110 diseases which can be related to being obese and major ones are definitely , heart attack , angina , inc. serum cholesterol, for women who take inc, animal fat breast ca. and for those who are naughty and prosmicoious who smoke and begin sex life early cervical cancer , and cos of pollution and pl smoking around us lung ca. then these aerosols we use MSG we eat that is monosodium glutamate in snacks and all take away foods , artificial sweetners , industrial pollution all these are giving rise to novel cancers with i guess passing time newer diseases are eveolving cos of ths artificial life, i dunno what to say but we are deriving numerous benefits from these service too lots lots more .we can help cut these down by engaging our selves in more phycical activities not hi tech just walk aorund the corner daily and healthier diets , wih more natural stuff and a healthy choice of fruits and vegies , then our GRAND MOTHERS  they were basically prone to infectious diseases which are either now preventable or treatable but none of these threats we have was there then.
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Most have heart diseases, but still alive and kicking. Thank god for medications and technology now a days. It makes us live longer to experience all these new diseases.
13364
First, beauty comes from within; it is enhanced by the way we act, speak, treat others, and treat ourselves.  Remaining healthy is similar to the first; some health issues are out of our control, but we have the power to give it a good shot.  Eat healthy foods, drink lots of water, exercise, get regular checkups from your doctor and stay away from unhealthy places (bars and crowed elevators :).  Now as for being loveable to others well, treat others the way you want to be treated, and you will be surprised at the response.  Now for you last question, I am still working on that one myself, but if you succeed with all of the above how much wealthier do you want or need to be?
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just eat sensibly. less of the junk food, more of the veggies & moderate consumption of meat & sugar-laced food.
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the best standard of health would no doubt lie close to nature.\n\nif you take plenty of raw fruits and vegetables, good amount of green leafy vegetables, natural or organic cereals. \ntake little or no amount of meats, fats and cholesterol rich foods.\nhave moderate exercise.\nstay happy, calm and sleep well\n\nyou'll be healthy enough to require minimal amount of medicines....    but it isn't easy
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Depends. If you are living in Sub-Saharan Africa, then, no, not really. If you are living in Vancouver, life is pretty good. As a whole, that's a pretty broad question. It is better to the extent that modern medicine keeps people alive longer. It's worse because all those people that are living longer cost billions of dollars in tax payer money making it difficult to pay for other much need social services. It's better in that it's easier to make and distribute food. It's worse because we have 190,000,000 people in the US that you could easily call "fat".\n\nIt's all relative.
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I think we stand on the cusp of understanding a great deal more about the human body thanks to the recent break throughs in technics and technology supporting Genetics research. Where that future takes us or it will come is hard to say. Even harder to predict is the sociological impacts these develops could bring about. Whatever happens I am sure medicine will take a giant step forward and lots of the ailments that plague us now will be resolved. The result is people will live longer  and live better.