Poor lifestyle choices, such as smoking, overuse of alcohol, poor diet, lack of physical activity and inadequate relief of chronic stress are key contributors in the development and progression of preventable chronic diseases, including obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease.
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The lives of far too many people in the world are being blighted and cut short by chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes. This is no longer only happening in high income countries. Four out of five chronic disease deaths today are in low and middle income countries. People in these countries tend to develop diseases at younger ages, suffer longer – often with preventable complications – and die sooner than those in high income countries (World Health Organization, 2005: P 7).
I can recommend two that discuss lifestyle and affect across the developmental spectrum of life.
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Devins, G. M. , Dion, R. , Pelletier, L. G. , Shapiro, C. M. , Abbey, S. , Raiz, L. R. , Binik, Y. M. , McGowan, P. , Kutner, N. G. , Beanlands, H. & Edworthy, S. M. (2001). Structure of lifestyle disruptions in chronic disease. Medical Care, 39(10), 1097-1104.
Yes, lifestyle affects chronic diseases through a positive lifestyle is good leading to reduce the injury or reduce harm as much as possible, either if the lifestyle is bad leads to the development of chronic diseases and multiply the bad impact on the individual infected