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Impact of Lifestyle on Health

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Iranian Journal of Public Health 44(11):1442-1444

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Iran J Public Health, Vol. 44, No.11, Nov 2015, pp.1442-1444 Editorial

1442 Available at: http://ijph.tums.ac.ir

Impact of Lifestyle on Health

*Dariush D. FARHUD

1, 2

1. School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2. Dept. of Basic Sciences, Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences ,Tehran, Iran

*Correspondence: Email: farhud@tums.ac.ir

(Received 12 Oct 2015; accepted 22 Oct 2015)

Introduction

Lifestyle is a way used by people, groups and na-

tions and is formed in specific geographical, eco-

nomic, political, cultural and religious text. Life-

style is referred to the characteristics of inhabit-

ants of a region in special time and place. It in-

cludes day to day behaviors and functions of indi-

viduals in job, activities, fun and diet.

In recent decades, life style as an important factor

of health is more interested by researchers. Ac-

cording to WHO, 60% of related factors to indi-

vidual health and quality of life are correlated to

lifestyle (1). Millions of people follow an un-

healthy lifestyle. Hence, they encounter illness,

disability and even death. Problems like metabolic

diseases, joint and skeletal problems, cardio-vascu-

lar diseases, hypertension, overweight, violence

and so on, can be caused by an unhealthy lifestyle.

The relationship of lifestyle and health should be

highly considered.

Today, wide changes have occurred in life of all

people. Malnutrition, unhealthy diet, smoking, al-

cohol consuming, drug abuse, stress and so on,

are the presentations of unhealthy life style that

they are used as dominant form of lifestyle. Be-

sides, the lives of citizens face with new challenges.

For instance, emerging new technologies within

IT such as the internet and virtual communication

networks, lead our world to a major challenge that

threatens the physical and mental health of indi-

viduals. The challenge is the overuse and misuse

of the technology.

Therefore, according to the existing studies, it can

be said that: lifestyle has a significant influence on

physical and mental health of human being. There

are different forms of such influences. Consangu-

inity in some ethnicity is a dominant form of life

style that it leads to the genetic disorders. Refor-

mation of this unhealthy life style is a preventing

factor for decreasing the rate of genetic diseases

(2). In some countries, the overuse of drugs is a

major unhealthy life style. Iran is one of the 20

countries using the most medications. They prefer

medication to other intervention. Furthermore, in

15-40% of cases they use medications about with-

out prescription (3). Pain relievers, eye drops and

antibiotics have the most usage in Iran. While self-

medications such as antibiotics have a negative

effect on the immune system, if the individual

would be affected by infection, antibiotics will not

be effective in treatment. Overall, 10 percent of

those who are self-medicated will experience se-

vere complications such as drug resistance. Some-

times drug allergy is so severe that it can cause

death (4).

Finally, variables of lifestyle that influence on

health can be categorized in some items:

1- Diet and Body Mass Index (BMI): Diet

is the greatest factor in lifestyle and has a

direct and positive relation with health.

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Poor diet and its consequences like obesity

is the common healthy problem in urban

societies. Unhealthy lifestyle can be meas-

ured by BMI. Urban lifestyle leads to the

nutrition problems like using fast foods

and poor foods, increasing problems like

cardiovascular (5).

2- Exercise: For treating general health

problems, the exercise is included in life

style (6). The continuous exercise along

with a healthy diet increases the health.

Some studies stress on the relation of ac-

tive life style with happiness (7, 8).

3- Sleep: One of the bases of healthy life is

the sleep. Sleep cannot be apart from life.

Sleep disorders have several social, psy-

chological, economical and healthy conse-

quences. Lifestyle may effect on sleep and

sleep has a clear influence on mental and

physical health (9).

4- Sexual behavior: Normal sex relation is

necessary in healthy life. Dysfunction of

sex relation is the problem of most of so-

cieties and it has a significant effect on

mental and physical health. It can be said

that dysfunctional sex relation may result

in various family problems or sex related

illnesses like; AIDS

5- Substance abuse: Addiction is consid-

ered as an unhealthy life style. Smoking

and using other substance may result in

various problems; cardiovascular disease,

asthma, cancer, brain injury. According to

the resent studies in Iran, 43% of females

and 64% of males experience the use of

hubble-bubble (10). A longitudinal study

shows that 30% of people between 18-65

years old smoke cigarette permanently (11).

6- Medication abuse: It is a common form

of using medication in Iran and it is con-

sidered as an unhealthy life style. Un-

healthy behaviors in using medication are

as followed: self-treatment, sharing medi-

cation, using medications without pre-

scription, prescribing too many drugs, pre-

scribing the large number of each drug,

unnecessary drugs, bad handwriting in

prescription, disregard to the contradictory

drugs, disregard to harmful effects of

drugs, not explaining the effects of drugs.

7- Application of modern technologies:

Advanced technology facilitates the life of

human beings. Misuse of technology may

result in unpleasant consequences. For ex-

ample, using of computer and other de-

vices up to midnight, may effect on the

pattern of sleep and it may disturb sleep.

Addiction to use mobile phone is related

to depression symptoms (12).

8- Recreation: Leisure pass time is a sub

factor of life style. Neglecting leisure can

bring negative consequences. With disor-

ganized planning and unhealthy leisure,

people endanger their health.

9- Study: Study is the exercise of soul. Plac-

ing study as a factor in lifestyle may lead to

more physical and mental health. For ex-

ample, prevalence of dementia, such as

Alzheimer's disease is lowerin educated

people. Study could slow process of de-

mentia.

Conclusion

With a look at existing studies in health domain, 9

key factors can be suggested for healthy life style

(Fig. 1). In regard to each factor, the systematic

planning in micro and macro level can be estab-

lished. It can provide a social and individual

healthy lifestyle.

Acknowledgements

The authors declare that there is no conflict of

interests.

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Fig. 1: Nine key factors that forming healthy life style

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