AYURVEDIC VIEW OF LIFE-STYLE MODIFICATIONS IN PREVENTION AND CONTROL DISEASES
Samundeeswari N., Ramnihor Tapsi Jaiswal, Manohar Ram and Ramesh Kant Dubey
ABSTRACT
The great doctor is one who treats not someone who is already ill but someone not yet ill. Since both prevention and treatment in importance, health precedes disease, so we have to consider first how health maybe preserved through make changes in lifestyle and then how one may get best cure disease. Lifestyle changes due to urbanization and modernization have caused unhealthy diet habits, lack of physical activity and increased stress leading to more of chronic metabolic disorders, mood disorders and anxiety disorders. India like developing countries are going through this scenario. Due to rapidly changing life-style in urban as well as in town cities of India, it is currently in the midst of NCD (non-communicable diseases) epidemic and burden of such diseases is increasing exponentially. Life-style is “The particular way of life of a person or group. it is the way one spends his entire day remaining active, his eating habits, use of tobacco or smoking habits and his attitude towards a particular situation. Thus, it determines his total physical and mental profile. This paper is to simply describe how to adapt various kinds of life-style modifications which already mentioned in Ayurveda in day-to-day life to prevent both physical and mental disorders.
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