Guide To Prevention Of Lifestyle Diseases: Live A Healthy Lifestyle To Fight Diseases

Guide To Prevention Of Lifestyle Diseases deals withissues concerning faulty life style factors and occurrence of major and minorailments, lack of public awareness, ways of prevention etc. What is hearteningis that most of the lifestyle ailments are preventable. Many of the lifestyleailments owe their origin to work, atmosphere, changes in daily routine, eatingpatterns, sexual permissiveness and the like. Three levels of prevention are nowknown: primary (intended to prevent disease among healthy people), secondary(directed towards those in whom the disease has already developed), tertiary (toreduce the disability consequent to disease). In addition, discoveries in thefield of nutrition have added a new dimensions to preventive medicine. Newstrategies have been developed for combating specific deficiencies as forexample, nutritional blindness and iodine deficiency disorders. Another notabledevelopment is the development of "screening" for the diagnosis ofdiseases in its pre-symptomatic stage e.g. the cholesterol estimation andmammography. This approach of pre-emptying the disease or its cause by timelyintervention in the life style is of great importance. Similar is the case withcancer cervix and other cancers, where prevention and early detection are thekeys to longer and better quality of life. The book deals with all these aspects indetail, while advocating the adoption of a healthy life style as the best bet againstdisease.