The benefits of modern medicine are broad and profound. Advances in health care and health care delivery allow physicians to perform modern day miracles. We are now able to treat symptoms and cure diseases once thought to be untreatable and incurable. However, the most impressive benefit of modern day medicine is the increase in our lifespan.
The increase in our lifespan should be a blessing but our bad habits have turned it into a curse. Our bad eating habits, sedentary lifestyles, and smoking have prevented us from enjoying the fruits of medical technology. Let me show you how.
Bad Eating Habits and Sedentary Lifestyles
Americans eat and drink too much food. We underestimate how many calories we actually “inhale” on a daily basis. We are living to eat instead of eating to live. Americans are also extremely sedentary. We overestimate how many calories we burn on a daily basis. Technology has made our lives so simple that we only have to expend a minimal amount of energy to make it through the day.
The combination of overeating and under-exercising has produced a country filled with overweight and obese individuals. This increase in body weight has helped increase the number of Americans with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, asthma and many types of cancer. Our decreasing health has led to an equal decrease in quality of life and increase in the cost of health care.
Poor Food Selection
Our bad eating habits do not stop with overeating. We also consume too many unhealthy foods. The typical American diet is too high in saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, sodium and processed carbohydrates. The American diet is also too low in unsaturated fats, fruits, vegetables and whole grains. The highs and lows of our diet have also contributed to the increase in the number of Americans with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease and many types of cancer.
Modern Day Medicine
Modern day medicine is allowing us to live longer lives. Unfortunately, these long lives are not healthy lives. Our bad eating habits and sedentary lifestyles have turned the gift of long life into a curse.
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Sedentary Lifestyles says it all, I used to work in an office. I was a dispatcher and we had call takers as well. Some of the call takers that I worked with over the years I could see their body changing, people would just sit and answer the phones, snacking on whatever, order a not so healthy lunch, then go home watch tv and come back the next day to do it all again. People just have to get active any way they can!
This is not the fault of the eater it is actually the fault of the commercial food outlets who are providing people these junk foods.
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I’ve only recently started keeping a rough track of how many calories my food contains and I have to stay I was astonished at how much more I consumed on a daily basis than I really needed. I really wasn’t aware of that. Well, except for the fact that I was gaining weight
. I’ve also started cycling a lot lately to get some exercise as I feel that good nutrition and exercise are the cornerstone of a healthy life.
Most of the people say that they wanted to lead a healthy life, but they simply just don’t do anything about it, until it is too late. I think majority of the Americans who suffer from bad eating habits are the ones working at offices or those who spend most of their time in front of their computers.
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The day I decided to start exercising (one hour walk everyday instead of sitting in front of the TV) and stop my bad eating habits (snacking on junkfoods between meals), I began not only to lose weight, but also to feel better and healthier (i.e. I’m not outbreath anymore when taking the stairs). We can get great benefits from changing just little things in our life.