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	Lifestyle diseases : QuicklyFind Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lifestyle diseases (also called diseases of longevity, diseases of civilization, or degenerative diseases) are diseases that appear to increase in frequency as countries become more industrialized and people live longer.
		The basic evidence that supports the existence of lifestyle diseases is the different incidences of diseases and causes of death in various nations and cultures, as evidenced in compiled statistics.
		Since the 1940s, most deaths have come from a completely different category of disease called lifestyle diseases, or diseases of longevity, which have been unmasked by the amelioration of diseases that previously caused death at younger ages.[2] Until the present era, death was largely due to infections, malignancies, injuries, poisonings, and war.
	www.quicklyfind.com /info/Lifestyle_diseases.htm (493 words)

	Lifestyle Diseases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lifestyle diseases are different from other diseases because they are potentially preventable, and can be lowered with changes in diet, lifestyle, and environment.
		Lifestyle diseases, or Diseases of Civilization, are a result of an inappropriate relationship of people with their environment.
		Urbanization and the risk for chronic diseases of lifestyle in the fl population of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
	naturalhealthperspective.com /home/civilization.html (1644 words)

	Lifestyle diseases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lifestyle diseases (also called diseases of longevity or diseases of civilization) are diseases that appear to increase in frequency as countries become more industrialized and people live longer.
		Factors in diet, lifestyle, and the environment are thought to influence susceptibility to the diseases listed above.
		In 1900, heart disease and cancer were ranked number four and eight respectively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lifestyle_diseases (374 words)

	public health response to lifestyle diseases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But at the same time there is a significant section of the poor who are prey to lifestyles diseases because of changes in the work environment and conditions of living.
		It is thus not possible to argue that lifestyle diseases are a concern of the rich and the public health system need not respond to the challenge posed by them.
		Lifestyle diseases mean diseases like heart disease, diabetes, cancers, etc. As a result, a perception has been created that any strategy to tackle these problems needs to look at the creation of "super-specialty" hospitals with "state of the art" facilities.
	pd.cpim.org /2002/may19/05192002_snd.htm (1452 words)

	National Healthy Lifestyle Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1998 alone, non-communicable diseases are estimated to have contributed to almost 60% of deaths in the world and 43% of the global burden of disease.
		The rapid increase in these diseases is sometimes seen disproportionately in poor and disadvantaged population and is contributing to widening health gaps between and within countries.
		For example, in 1998, of the total number of deaths attributable to non-communicable diseases, 77% occurred in developing countries, and the disease burden they represent, 85% was borne by low and middle income countries.
	www.doh.gov.ph /healthylifestyle/hlprogram.htm (1590 words)

	What Are Autoimmune Diseases? - Health/Lifestyle Article Archive of the International Pemphigus Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Autoimmune diseases occur when there is some interruption of the usual control process, allowing lymphocytes to avoid suppression, or when there is an alteration in some body tissue so that it is no longer recognized as "self" and is thus attacked.
		The ability to develop an autoimmune disease is determined by a dominant genetic trait that is very common (20 percent of the population).
		It is important for families with members who have an autoimmune disease to mention this fact when another member of the family is experiencing medical problems that appear to be difficult to diagnose.
	www.pemphigus.org /articles/healthlifestyle/ah_autoimmunedisease.html (901 words)

	Designer Diseases, The Milli Gazette, Vol.3 No.23, MG69 (1-15 Dec 02)
		These are categorised as lifestyle diseases and it is expected that at least 40 percent of outpatients spending would be on account of these diseases.
		The lifestyle diseases mentioned in the said report must be relating to those who have every thing in life that material wealth and connections can provide.
		Lifestyle would have included socio-economic maladies such as bride-burning and kisans setting fire to their crops and grain stocks.
	www.milligazette.com /Archives/01122002/0112200275.htm (1143 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Chronic, lifestyle diseases The growing threat - Wednesday \| November 13, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The argument is that the longer people live, the greater the risk for developing the lifestyle diseases.
		The 10 leading causes of death in Jamaica are chronic, lifestyle diseases cerebrovascular accidents, diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, heart failure, cancer, homicides, HIV/AIDS disease, acute respiratory tract infection and chronic, lower respiratory tract infection.
		Disease trends have been linked to dramatic lifestyle changes more people are more sedentary as access to technology increases; they eat more fast foods and take diets rich in fats, sugar and salt; they drink too much alcohol, smoke and engage in risky sexual behaviour.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20021113/health/health1.html (664 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner News - Lifestyle diseases and wellness - Thursday \| May 18, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Five lifestyle diseases are accounting for 63 per cent of all deaths annually in Jamaica.
		The disease burden of the population has shifted from infectious diseases to chronic lifestyle diseases - the diseases of development.
		One of the quirky side effects of so-called 'development' is that chronic lifestyle diseases overtake infectious diseases as the leading killers.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20060518/cleisure/cleisure2.html (687 words)

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		The term 'chronic diseases of lifestyle' is shorthand for a group of diseases that have similar risk factors as a result of exposure, usually over many decades, to diets of a particular kind (high in kilojoules and saturated fats, low in dietary fibre), cigarette smoking, physical inactivity and psychological stress.
		Our concern with the chronic diseases of lifestyle in South Africa has to do with costly and debilitating morbidity long before this unavoidable twilight zone is reached and, for many, death long before the appointed time as a result of heart attack, stroke or cancer.
		A Programme for Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle was established by the MRC early in 1995, building on the insights gained from the drafting of this Technical Report.
	www.sahealthinfo.org /lifestyle/lifeintro.htm (1492 words)

	Prevent Disease.com - Healthy Lifestyle May Fight Impotence
		A major new study of American males suggests regular exercise and a healthy diet may help banish ED and the heart disease that often accompanies it.
		"Lifestyle intervention, such as exercise and diet, may be effective treatment for ED," said study author Elizabeth Selvin, a research fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
		"Lifestyle modifications such as exercise and weight loss for patients with the metabolic syndrome have been shown to prevent almost two-thirds of new-onset diabetes cases," he added.
	preventdisease.com /news/articles/030806_lifestyle_impotence.shtml (629 words)

	The Pandemic of Lifestyle Diseases
		The WHO estimates that atherosclerosis (heart attacks and strokes) and diabetes (90% of the Type 2 variety) kill about 16 million people every year, more than are killed by war, famine and malaria combined, and more than might conceivably be killed in a single pandemic of bird flu.
		Diseases of lifestyle (coronary heart disease, strokes, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, obesity) are fundamentally different from communicable diseases.
		They gave their god of medicine, Asclepius, two daughters, Panaceia, the goddess of the expensive quick fix, the treatment of symptoms, not the disease and Hygeia, the goddess of cost-free prevention and treatment of disease by healthy lifestyle.
	homepage.mac.com /colros (586 words)

	Lifestyle_Diseases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lifestyle diseases are diseases that are caused by, or at least developed as a result of various lifestyle behaviours such as poor nutrition, smoking, drinking too much alcohol and not doing enough physical activity.
		Many of the diseases that are most common nowadays are lifestyle diseases.
		The more we know about what causes certain lifestyle diseases - the risk factors - the more we can try to reduce the impact these diseases have on our society.
	www.coleamball-c.schools.nsw.edu.au /Lifestyle_Diseases/lifestyle_diseases.htm (108 words)

	1990s: The Burden of Infectious and Lifestyle Diseases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the 1990s, lifestyle diseases overtook infectious diseases as the leading causes of mortality.
		Diseases of the heart and other vascular diseases ranked number one and two respectively while the scourge of tuberculosis remained at number five.
		Many developed countries are said to be suffering from the double burden of diseases, which means that while infectious diseases have not gone down yet, these countries are now facing the burden of lifestyle diseases.
	www.doh.gov.ph /sphh/1990.htm (735 words)

	Sun.Star Iloilo - Guimaras to launch 'Healthy Lifestyle' program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"That is why the leading cause of death in the province is cancer and other lifestyle diseases wherein smoking is one of the risk factors being considered," she added.
		This project is in collaboration between World Health Organization (WHO), UP-Manila College of Nursing and Degenerative Disease Office, NCDPC focusing mainly for the prevention and control of cardio-vascular disease, diabetes and cancer or we called "lifestyle diseases".
		Catalan disclosed that the primary cause of death in Guimaras is brought by these lifestyle diseases reason why the province became the pilot project area.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ilo/2003/02/17/life/guimaras.to.launch.healthy.lifestyle.program.html (431 words)

	Scientific American: Lifestyle Blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The six leading killers of Americans--coronary heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, colon cancer, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease--were responsible for 43 percent of all deaths in 1998.
		These six are also the major "lifestyle" diseases--that is, diseases that trace mainly to imprudent living, such as poor diet, obesity, lack of exercise, and cigarette smoking.
		That suggests that mortality rates of the major chronic diseases will not decline as fast in the coming years as in the past, but it is likely that the number of deaths from lifestyle diseases will climb dramatically after 2010, when the baby boomers enter old age.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=000CF801-2376-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21 (503 words)

	Life Extension Daily News
		"The most important factors for lifestyle diseases are increasing consumption of tobacco, dietary consumption of fats, particularly saturated fat, lack of physical activity and inadequacy of stress- coping mechanisms," he said.
		That represents a rise in deaths from chronic disease of 17 per cent while the region will see a 10 per cent fall in those killed by infectious diseases, antenatal and postnatal complications and malnutrition over the same period.
		Chronic diseases are not just seen as a problem of the newly emerging wealthier classes.
	www.lef.org /news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=3685&Section=DISEASE (552 words)

	Lifestyle-related diseases on the rise
		Figures reveal that the district is sitting on the brink of major epidemic with disastrous and far-reaching medical, social and economic consequences: the epidemic of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes melliatus and hypertension.
		Modernisation has led to a sedentary lifestyle, one of the major reasons for the growing number of such diseases.
		As per statistics, 20 per cent males in urban and semi-urban areas of the district are suffering from these diseases, while in case of females, it is 18 per cent.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990823/ige23134.html (463 words)

	FNRI Researchers Study Nutrition Related Lifestyle Diseases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		These are non-communicable diseases related to unhealthy lifestyles and unbalanced diet that are becoming common in the country.
		With the effect of urbanization and popularity of convenience foods, there is a tendency for a decrease in physical activity, while levels of smoking and stress tend to increase.
		All these factors may lead to obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, osteoporosis, and cancer or the so-called nutrition-related lifestyle diseases.
	www.fnri.dost.gov.ph /wp/lifestyle.htm (213 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive
		By 2020 the number of deaths each year due to chronic diseases in the country of 1.1 billion people may stand at 7.63 million (66.7 per cent of all deaths).
		That represents a rise in deaths from chronic disease of 17 percent while the region will see a 10 percent fall in those killed by infectious diseases, antenatal and postnatal complications and malnutrition over the same period.
		In China, where smoking is rampant, an estimated 17 percent of all deaths are due to chronic respiratory diseases, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to WHO experts.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=35087 (1403 words)

	07 lifestyle diseases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		LIFESTYLE diseases were placing an increasing burden on the health system, Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa said yesterday.
		She was to tell the provincial legislature later yesterday that people needing treatment for strokes, diabetes and hypertension had made more than one million visits to hospitals and clinics in the past financial year.
		Strokes are a lifestyle disease that cause disability and are among the top 10 causes of death in Gauteng.
	www.citizen.co.za /index/article.aspx?pDesc=4416,1,22 (475 words)

	MSN India Feature - Beware: Your lifestyle may cost your life
		The country is going the way of developed countries, and researchers fear that by 2012 seven disease groups would drive the growth in the number of outpatients.
		With increasing stress, stress-related or lifestyle diseases would be on the rise.
		Many of the lifestyle ailments owe their origin to work atmosphere, changes in daily routine and the like.
	server1.msn.co.in /features/lifestyle/index.asp (545 words)

	Genes, lifestyle and disease fact file
		Cancer, heart disease, lung disease and diabetes are the four most common types of diseases that result from lifestyle-related (or non-communicable) risk factors.
		Huntington’s disease is a single gene disorder of the central nervous system which usually develops in adult men and women.
		In some cases a couple that happens to have the same recessive disease may only realise that they carry the disease when their child is born and is discovered to suffer from the disease.
	www.pub.ac.za /factfile/disease.html (2395 words)

	HEALTH: Lifestyle Diseases Overtake Asia's Infectious Killers
		They are cancer, heart disease and strokes, diabetes and asthma and chronic respiratory diseases.
		These numbers -- 17.5 million deaths due to cardiovascular disease, 7.5 million deaths due to cancer and 4.05 million deaths due to chronic respiratory diseases -- tower over the annual death toll in 2005 from the three widely known major infectious diseases.
		While in other countries the toll is higher, such as Indonesia having over 60 percent of its citizens dying due to chronic diseases and for China, Iran, Fiji, and Brunei the annual figure accounting for over 70 percent of the deaths.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=32166 (1123 words)

	Indians are at high risk of lifestyle diseases: Survey : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Indians are at high risk of lifestyle diseases, a blood sample survey released here shows.
		The survey, based on blood samples of 535 women and 735 men, has revealed that Indians are more prone to diseases such as heart ailments, asthma, cancers, nervous and circulatory disorders, diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
		The survey showed that improper lifestyles lead to diabetes and related vascular, cardiac and neurological problems and that regular health check-ups allow for early diagnosis and treatment.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1504376,0050.htm (392 words)

	Lifestyle Diseases: Sports & Recreation: University of Leicester
		With lifestyle diseases on the increase it is important that we have a proactive response.
		By exercising regularly the following diseases can be affected positively; obesity, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and coronary heart disease.
		Due to lifestyle changes and labour saving devices we now require 800 kilocalories a day less than we did 20 years ago.
	www.le.ac.uk /sports/healthy_newsletter/lifestyle_diseases.html (329 words)

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