Dr. Kavita Vasant Lokhande, Prof. Rajendra Prasad
Vol. 6, Jul-Dec 2018
Abstract:
Lifestyle simply means “the way in which person lives.” The daily activities of person since he wakes up to fall asleep are included in this. It includes dietary habit, the nature of his work, exercise, hobbies and lesiure time activities. These activities have great impact on both physical and mental health of person. Lifestyle diseases are defined as diseases linked with the way people live their life. This is commonly caused by alcohol, drugs and smoking abuse as well as lack of physical activity and unhealthy eating. Diseases that impact on our lifestyle is heart disease, stroke, obesity and type II diabetes etc. there are also some psychosomatic disorders like Alzheimer's disease, astma, depression etc. presently there is high increase in of lifestyle diseases like hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and overweight/obesity associated with cardiovascular diseases is high on the rise. With rapid economic development and increasing westernization of lifestyle in the past few decades, prevalence of these diseases has reached alarming proportions among Indians in the recent years. As Ayurveda is science of life and described ways of prevention and management of diseases. One who wants to keep fit himself for whole of his life time should also be fit for every day. Health depends on how one spends day. The ideal life style for a day is called as daily regimen (Dinacharya). Daily regimen explains the various duties from one day to the next day.