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Posted: 23 August 2008 10:13 PM   [ Ignore ]
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What are Life Style Diseases? What are they? A few names....
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Posted: 23 August 2008 10:50 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Lifestyle disease can be defined as a disease associated with the way a person or group of people lives. Lifestyle diseases include atherosclerosis, heart disease, and stroke; obesity and type 2 diabetes; and diseases associated with smoking and alcohol and drug abuse.
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Posted: 23 August 2008 11:25 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Lifestyle diseases are a result of an inappropriate relationship of people with their environment. The onset of these lifestyle diseases is insidious, they take years to develop, and once encountered do not lend themselves easily to cure.

Some of the Lifestyle diseases include :
Arteriosclerosis, Cancer, liver Cirrhosis, Diabetes, Stroke etc
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Posted: 25 August 2008 04:43 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer are referred to as lifestyle diseases. Sedentary life style, dietary habits, tobacco, alcohol and stress are the causes.
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