Abstract

ROLE OF DIET AND LIFESTYLE IN PREVALENCE, PROGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

*Dr. Navdeep Kaur and **Dr. Neelam Verma

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Abstract

Proper diet and life style are important parts of leading a healthy life. They can help to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce the risk of diseases and promote mental & physical well being. According to Ayurveda, one who takes healthy diet and adopts healthy lifestyle, by following daily and seasonal regime, always remains healthy. Today, wide changes have occurred in food habits and lifestyle due to industrialization and urbanization. Malnutrition, faulty dietary habits, sedentary life style, smoking, alcohol consumption and stress have caused various types of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs), like DM and IBS. NCDs, all known as chronic diseases, do not transmit from person to person, tend to progress slowly, include endogenous as well as psychic diseases and are highly prevalent globally. In India, every year, around 5.8 million people die from NCDs while 38 million deaths occur due to the same cause, worldwide. Faulty diet and lifestyle may cause genetic mutations or alter disease suppressing effect of genes and hence cause CVDs, Asthma, DM and Cancer. Moreover, if a person continues indulging in causative factors, even medicine cannot improve the prognosis. Hence, only healthy diet and lifestyle modification can help reducing the global burden of NCDs.

Keywords: Ayurveda, Diet, Life Style, Non- Communicable Diseases (NCDs).