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Preventive medecine: personal lifestyle and disease PREVENTIVE MEDECINE: PERSONAL LIFESTYLE AND DISEASE
Although we all live against the backcloth of western civilization we are able now, at least to some extent, to manipulate our environment so as to reduce some of the hazards. There are three reasons for linking health and lifestyle.
1. The major causes of death, serious illness and disability in the West today are the c1 ironic diseases and violence. Chronic disease accounts for about 80 per cent of all deaths, and violence in the form of accidents, suicide and homicide for about 8 per cent.
2. Behind most of these deaths are behavioural and environmental factors, many of which can be prevented. About 80 per cent of all cancers in men, and 75 per cent in women, for example, are attributable to environmental or behavioural factors or a combination of both.
3. A few individual and societal lifestyle changes could make an enormous difference to rates of death and disease and levels of suffering in any westernized society.
Smoking
Nearly 20 per cent of all western mortality is smoking related. Lethal diseases associated with smoking are: heart disease, lung cancer; chronic bronchitis and emphysema; and cancer of the kidney, stomach and pancreas. It also plays a part in the forming of peptic ulcers and has adverse effects on the fetus. In spite of this being well known and widely publicized 36 per cent of the UK population and 41 per cent of adults in the US, still smoke.
Alcohol
The extent to which alcohol contributes to disease, disability and premature death is not always appreciated. Many authorities agree that 'alcoholism' is the most devastating socio-medical problem faced by human society apart from war and malnutrition. It plays a major part in liver disease, peptic ulcer, many digestive disorders, nervous system damage, nutritional disorders, and metabolic changes. It contributes to half of all deaths in car accidents, half of all murders, and a quarter of all suicides. The true alcoholic's lifespan is shortened by 10-12 years and even that of the heavy social drinker is shortened.
Drug abuse
This is now increasingly common in the form both of legal and illegal drugs. People living in the industrialized world are increasingly dependent upon readily available drugs as aids to coping with the stresses of modern life. These range from prescribed tranquillizers such as Valium and Librium to alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, cannabis, cocaine and heroin. Six out of ten of all prescriptions in the US are for mood-altering drugs. Legally prescribed drugs in the form of tranquillizers and sleeping tablets are used in suicide attempts-successful and otherwise-and the number of narcotic addicts is rising all over the western world. Narcotic drugs are now the second biggest killer under the age of 40 in New York (violence and accidents are the main cause). The withdrawal of both legal and illegal drugs can cause real suffering (as millions of tranquillizer patients know to their cost).
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