New Delhi : February 2, 2025 . Degenerative ( Life style diseases ) diseases
like cardiac arrest , cancer , brain stroke etc are on the rise and their instances are
much more than that of the pre – 2015 levels . Before 2015 the percentage of
people suffering from such diseases was just 5 percent of the total population of
India . but the rate is alarmingly increasing after 2015 . It has been observed that
in a period from mid 2015-2024, the rate is almost nearer to 9.8 percent of the
total population . What is most alarming is that this trend is shifting towards rural
areas . When Doctor Nidhi Patel ( a renowned general medicine specialist in
Gurugaon ) was asked about the reason of such shift and increasing rate , she
replied
“ life style has become more sedentary than more active in recent years .
What could be otherwise more astonishing , but true is that the advent of
smart phones and the online food delivery system incorporated with the
smart phones made people lethargic as they preferred outdoor foods and
fast foods rather than preparing their foods in home. The sedentary nature
of jobs in IT ( Information technology ) , banking and in other service
sectors add leverages to online food delivery systems as there is dearth of
time for the employees in the above sectors to prepare their own food . As
online food delivery has reached villages now , the rural-well off people
have also become lethargic so far as preparation foods is concerned and
are now developing such symptoms that can be attributed to life style
diseases”.
It has also been observed that the rate of occurrences of such diseases is
more among the urban youth who are in theire twenties. Apart from junk food
habits which cause cardio vascular diseases and cancer , late night sleeping , on
line gaming cause anxiety disorders which is also a precondition for brain stroke ,
mental trauma and also cardiac arrest .
In the last decades lifestyle diseases which are once said to be prevalent in
the north American and European country have made their way to some of the
developing Asian Countries like India , China , Singapore , Thailand .
